Black Theatre

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

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,…

It’s been a year full of revivals in Chicago, and in an era where the Greek chorus has been replaced by the legions…

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…

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

There is palpable energy prior to a theatrical production; a current of excitement that buzzes through an audience…

It’s been 25 years since the civil war that resulted in genocide against the Tutsi tribe of the East African nation…

Gentrification continues to redistrict the boundaries of traditionally black and brown neighborhoods in urban cities…

For Colored Girls... first arrived on the scene in December of 1974—coincidentally, just a few months before I did.…

Seven women, a segregated society, and an age-old means of survival. That’s the pretext behind the play The House…