Wallace Thurman

Antonia Badon to Star in ZORA At American Theatre of Actors
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 11, 2024

Antonia Badon will star in ZORA, a one-woman play about Zora Neale Hurston, at the American Theatre of Actors. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Plan-B Theatre Announces 2022-2023 Season Featuring World Premieres & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 15, 2022

Plan-B Theatre has announced their 32nd Season, celebrating the work of 10 Utah playwrights!

BWW Review: Theatre UCF's Energetic SPUNK AND THE HARLEM LITERATI is Weighed Down by its Own Ambition
by Matt Tamanini - Jan 27, 2016

Ambition can be a dangerous thing, whether you are a guitar-playing drifter in early Twentieth Century Orlando, or a playwright attempting to recontextualize an outdated work. In SPUNK AND THE HARLEM LITERATI, running through January 31st, UCF Theatre professor Be Boyd attempts to take an existing play by author and playwright Zora Neale Hurston, and ham-handedly shoehorn it into a framing device that seeks to admirably put the works of Hurston and her African-American contemporaries into proper cultural context. Unfortunately, the lack of connection between the framing scenes, set on a Harlem rooftop, and those of the play proper, set in rural Eatonville, Florida, robs both of any greater significance.

Harlem Chamber Players & ChamberMusicNY Receive Grant
by Tyler Peterson - Oct 21, 2015

The Harlem Chamber Players and ChamberMusicNY are pleased to announce that the New York State Council on the Arts has awarded a grant for the commissioning of composer Jeffrey Scott's A Hug For Harlem.

13th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival Launches Today
by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2015

The Downtown Urban Theater Festival (Reg E. Gaines, Artistic Director) will present its 13th annual season in New York City today, May 13th - 30th, 2015.

Danny Hoch Receives 2015 DUTF Playwright Masters Award Tonight
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2015

The Downtown Urban Theater Festival announces that acclaimed playwright/director/actor Danny Hoch will receive the 2015 DUTF Playwright Masters Award at this year's Opening Night event, which will take place tonight, May 12th at 8:00 p.m. at 40/40 Club (6 West 25th Street, NYC). 

13th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival Completes Lineup, Launches Next Week
by BWW News Desk - May 4, 2015

The Downtown Urban Theater Festival (Reg E. Gaines, Artistic Director) will present its 13th annual season in New York City from May 13th - 30th, 2015. 

Tickets on Sale Now for 13th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival, Running 5/13-30
by BWW News Desk - Apr 29, 2015

The Downtown Urban Theater Festival (Reg E. Gaines, Artistic Director) will present its 13th annual season in New York City from May 13th - 30th, 2015.

Danny Hoch to Receive 2015 DUTF Playwright Masters Award Next Month
by BWW News Desk - Apr 24, 2015

?The Downtown Urban Theater Festival announces that acclaimed playwright/director/actor Danny Hoch will receive the 2015 DUTF Playwright Masters Award at this year's Opening Night event, which will take place on Tuesday, May 12th at 8:00 p.m. at 40/40 Club (6 West 25th Street, NYC). 

13th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival Lineup Announced; Runs 5/13-30 at HERE
by BWW News Desk - Mar 3, 2015

The Downtown Theater Festival (Reg E. Gaines, Artistic Director) proudly announces that its 13th annual season will take place in New York City from May 13th - 30th, 2015.

WALLACE Closes 3/14 at Salt Late City's Plan-B Theater
by BWW News Desk - Mar 14, 2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner (portrayed by Richard Scharine) is the dean of Western writers. Wallace Thurman (portrayed by Carleton Bluford) was a young, gay black man at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. Both called Salt Lake City home.

Salt Late City's Plan-B Theater Presents WALLACE, 3/4-3/14
by BWW News Desk - Mar 4, 2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner (portrayed by Richard Scharine) is the dean of Western writers. Wallace Thurman (portrayed by Carleton Bluford) was a young, gay black man at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. Both called Salt Lake City home.

Plan-B Theatre Presents The World Premiere of WALLACE 3/4
by BWW News Desk - Mar 4, 2010

Salt Lake City's Plan-B Theatre continues its 2009/10 season with the world premiere of Wallace, by Utah playwrights Jennifer Nii and Debora Threedy.

Photo Flash: Salt Late City's Plan-B Theater Presents WALLACE
by BWW News Desk - Mar 1, 2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner (portrayed by Richard Scharine) is the dean of Western writers. Wallace Thurman (portrayed by Carleton Bluford) was a young, gay black man at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. Both called Salt Lake City home.

Plan-B Theatre Presents The World Premiere of WALLACE 3/4
by Mary Hanrahan - Feb 4, 2010

Salt Lake City's Plan-B Theatre continues its 2009/10 season with the world premiere of Wallace, by Utah playwrights Jennifer Nii and Debora Threedy.

Salt Late City's Plan-B Theater Presents WALLACE, 3/4-3/14
by Samantha Jacobsen - Feb 1, 2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner (portrayed by Richard Scharine) is the dean of Western writers. Wallace Thurman (portrayed by Carleton Bluford) was a young, gay black man at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. Both called Salt Lake City home.

AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival
by Mark Andrew Lawrence - Jul 19, 2006

AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival: the celebration, examination, encouragement, development, promotion and presentation of African Canadian playwrights and their plays!