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The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center Honors Filmmakers At Upcoming 30th Short Film Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 14, 2024

The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center's 30th Short Film Festival will honor industry leaders and feature over 60 short films, three feature films, and panel discussions.

BAM To Screen World Premiere of New 4K Restoration of THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 11, 2024

Experience the world premiere of the 4K restoration of THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR at BAM Harvey Theater on August 16.

AMERICAN SIKH to Receive World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in June
by Blair Ingenthron - May 28, 2023

AMERICAN SIKH will receive its world premiere at the OSCAR-qualifying Tribeca Film Festival this June. The film was created in partnership with Singh as the producer and Los Angeles-based director Ryan Westra.

Theater Stories: CURIOUS INCIDENT, THE BAND'S VISIT, THE INHERITANCE and More About the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 11, 2021

Today's Theater Stories features the Ethel Barrymore Theatre! Learn about Ethel Barrymore herself, shows to have graced the theatre's stage, including An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Chaplin, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Band's Visit, The Inheritance, and many more!

VIDEO: On This Day, March 11- A RAISIN IN THE SUN Debuts On Broadway
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 11, 2021

What happens to a dream deferred? In the South Side of Chicago, a poor black family struggles to stay afloat as they search for financial stability and a place to call home. Tensions flare as the generations reach for different dreams and prejudice seeps into their lives.

16 Musicals & Plays That Deal With Social Injustice
by Kaitlin Milligan - Jun 27, 2020

Theater has always been an outlet for creative minds to discuss the issues that plague our society, whether it's racism, income inequality, or the struggles of the LGBTQ+ community. Learn our picks for musicals and plays that deal with important social topics.

Blumenthal Performing Arts Announces The 2019 Blumey Awards Nominees
by Julie Musbach - Apr 26, 2019

Blumenthal Performing Arts is pleased to announce the nominees competing in the 8th Annual High School Musical Theater Awards, also known as The Blumey Awards, presented by Wells Fargo on Sunday, May 19, at Belk Theater.

BWW Review: HIP HOP FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Brings Fresh Perspectives and Hot Talent to Harlem
by Cindy Sibilsky - Aug 13, 2018

The 3rd annual Hip Hop Film Festival was held, fittingly, at the historic National Black Theatre founded by Dr. Barbara Ann Teer who moved to Harlem in 1968 and saw that the once vibrant neighborhood was suffering from a sense of hopelessness after the losses of African American leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and desperately needed a community space and cultural arts institution that would 'be reflective of the power, grace and excellence of a people' (according to her daughter and current CEO Sade Lythcott).

BAMcinématek Presents 'Say It Loud: Cinema In The Age Of Black Power, 1966â€"1981'
by Stephi Wild - Jul 18, 2018

From Friday, August 17 through Thursday, August 30 BAMcinematek presents Say It Loud: Cinema in the Age of Black Power, 1966-1981. A cinematic companion to the Brooklyn Museum's exhibit Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, the series explores revolutionary and relevant records of a struggle that continues to this day. As black consciousness spread across the globe in the mid-1960s, it gave rise to a radical cinema that both reflected and worked to further the cause of African-American liberation. "These films are confrontational, experimental, and ripe for (re)discovery, powerfully evoking their own time, and unarguably speaking to today's fractious social and political climate," explains series programmer Ashley Clark.

TV's HONDO & More Set for getTV's Western Programming Block, Starting Today
by TV News Desk - Sep 12, 2015

Acclaimed movie diginet getTV introduces classic TV series to its lineup for the first time by adding a block of rarely seen Western series starting today, September 12 at 12 p.m. ET.

THEATRICAL THROWBACK THURSDAY: A RAISIN IN THE SUN Breaks Ground On Broadway
by Pat Cerasaro - Mar 12, 2015

Today we are revisiting a groundbreaking play that premiered this week in 1959.

VIDEO: Watch THE SIMPSONS Fan-Made Contest-Winning Couch Gag
by Caryn Robbins - Feb 13, 2015

Australian artists and animators Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon recreated the iconic opening credits from their favorite show using pixel art as a tribute to the longest-running scripted series on television.

Karamu House's Terrence Spivey to Open USITT 2015, March 18
by BWW News Desk - Oct 29, 2014

Terrence Spivey, the dynamic artistic director of Cleveland's historic Karamu House theatre, will deliver the keynote address at USITT's 2015 Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Cincinnati next March.

Michael Roemer's NOTHING BUT A MAN Screens on MKL Day At Moving Image
by BWW News Desk - Jan 16, 2012

A depiction of black life in 1960s Alabama, Michael Roemer's Nothing But a Man will be shown in an archival 35mm print at Museum of the Moving Image in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday.

Screenwriters Participate In Symposium At IU's Black Film Center/Archive Thru 3/25
by BWW News Desk - Mar 25, 2010

The Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive next Wednesday and Thursday (March 24-25) will host its second major program this spring, a symposium devoted to the study of 'Cinematic Representations of Racial Conflict in Real Time.'

Screenwriters Participate In Symposium At IU's Black Film Center/Archive 3/24, 3/25
by BWW News Desk - Mar 24, 2010

The Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive next Wednesday and Thursday (March 24-25) will host its second major program this spring, a symposium devoted to the study of 'Cinematic Representations of Racial Conflict in Real Time.'

A Raisin in the Sun Headed to TV with Broadway Cast Intact
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2006

Variety reports this morning that the dynamic producing duo of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are bringing another show to the small screen - A Raisin in the Sun, which will go before the cameras in December for a 2007 airing on ABC featuring the leads of the Broadway revival - Sean 'Diddy' Coms, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan.