Black theater

Theater, film and television actor Anthony Chisholm has died at age 77, The Katz Company, his talent management,…

Did you miss the stylish spectacle of the Wearable Art Gala this year? Are you quietly a fan of “Ms. Tina’s Corny…

To vote or not to vote this November seems a fairly absurd question to many of us facing what is likely the most…

When Octavia Butler published Parable of Sower in 1993, she fictionally forecasted the year 2024 as a dystopia under…

As the COVID-19 epidemic has derailed all of our lives, it has done unimaginable damage to the live entertainment…

“I like things that subvert the audience’s expectations,” actor/director Wardell Julius Clark told The Root when…

Perhaps the best way to approach a play like Lindiwe, a Love Story is not to ask it to be a play at all—at least,…

For every family who revels in reuniting with each other this time of year, there is another for whom the holidays…

It’s been a year full of revivals in Chicago, and in an era where the Greek chorus has been replaced by the legions…

Jayme Lawson is only 22.

“Reparations” is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by…

To say Tarell Alvin McCraney is masterful at articulating black male coming-of-age stories in America would be an…

There was palpable energy in the theater on the opening night of Drury Lane Theatre’s revival of The Color Purple—and…

While it’s widely celebrated as a major work of American theater, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have…

In an age where superheroes reign supreme thanks to a successful, multibillion dollar Marvel movies run, New York…

“It’s a very universal story. It’s a play about brothers,” says actor Namir Smallwood when asked about his role in Tr…

Whenever I sum up Loretta Devine’s highly respected, dense and ongoing career, I cite her as “Everybody’s Mama.” No…

As actor Danielle Brooks sings and shines as Beatrice in director Kenny Leon’s production of Much Ado About Nothing,…

“The most transparent way is the truth.”

There’s a moment during Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale when pivotal character Paulina pauses in the midst of…