(l-r): Vocalists Heather McELrath and Pippi Ardennia, and Richard Woods as Langston Hughes. Warm Dark Dusk, a jazz music and...
Read moreDirector reflects on upcoming BARBECUE 'BARBECUE' opens Mixed Blood's 2016-17 season Thomas W. Jones II, when he's at work, presently...
Read moreHosts Mark Benninghofen and Regina Marie Williams The 2016 Ivey Awards usually attracts a packed house, so this year’s sold-out...
Read moreChicago-based playwright Phillip Dawkins is mounting a one-man invasion of Twin Cities theater. This season he'll see three scripts produced:...
Read moreWhat better way to continue the conversation about Simone’s rich legacy than going to see to see the play Nina...
Read moreIn 1963, the book The Snowy Day, by writer and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats was released and made history by...
Read moreBlack newspapers — a fixture in almost every major city since the 1800s — are needed now more than ever,...
Read moreInstead of delivering a sharp send up of slavery and its ills, Jenkins is so clumsy you are painfully reminded...
Read moreEntertaining and joyful are just a few words to describe Children’s Theatre Company’s (CTC) production of The Wizard of Oz.
Read moreIt is the mid-1970s in Reno, and a trio of disco singers — Tina, Delores and Michelle — are performing...
Read moreOn Thursday, October 8 at the State Theatre in downtown Minneapolis, Jecaryous Johnson's Things Your Man Won't Do was showcased.
Read moreAgainst a black background and on a square white platform within a larger stage, Roger Guenveur Smith put everything he...
Read moreAward-winning actor Roger Guenveur Smith brings the late Rodney King to life on stage beginning this week at St. Paul’s...
Read moreAfrican American actors in Minnesota were well represented at this year's 11th Annual Ivey Awards, held September 21 at the...
Read moreTo Kill a Mockingbird takes the Guthrie Theater stage this month, running from September 18 through October 18.
Read moreA cast top-loaded with Penumbra Theatre veterans James A. Williams, Aimee K. Bryant and Greta Oglesby, along with Shawn Hamilton...
Read moreIn the rarefied aesthetic of African American theater, there is The Negro Ensemble Company, there is Penumbra Theatre and then...
Read moreLisa Marie Brimmer's A Tribe Called Queer: Can We Kick It?, June 12 and 13 at Patrick’s Cabaret, was a...
Read moreDamn Yankees first premiered on Broadway in 1955, then later as a 1958 film and a 1967 U.S. television special....
Read moreTinitha “Da Black Pearll” Warren has switched gears. She reigned quite a while as one of the true queens of...
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