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Black theater
Culture
Culture

Broadway’s Ain’t Too Proud Is a Rousing, Joyful Nod to Black American Life and Legacy

Angela Helm
4/30/19 9:00AM
Culture
Culture

Live to Tell: 25 Years After Genocide, Miracle in Rwanda Sheds Light on a Tragic Legacy

Maiysha Kai
4/29/19 10:00AM
Culture
Culture

Playing the Gentrification Game: In Ike Holter's Lottery Day, the Audience Wins

Maiysha Kai
4/13/19 12:09PM
Glow Up Goddess
Glow Up Goddess

Redefining the Role: LaTanya Richardson Jackson Finds a Well-Deserved Spotlight in Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird

Maiysha Kai
4/12/19 9:30AM
Culture
Culture

Stretching the Exquisite: Why Hearing Black Women’s Voices in Theater Is a Revolutionary Act

Angela Helm
4/03/19 9:00AM
Culture
Culture

For Colored Girls, Forever: With a Stunning Revival and New Work, Ntozake Shange's Words Remain Timeless

Maiysha Kai
3/27/19 4:15PM
Culture
Culture

‘Racism Is a Soft Target’: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Lynn Nottage on the Prescient Moment That Became Sweat

Maiysha Kai
3/18/19 5:00PM
Culture
Culture

Black on the Great White Way: Actors Are Breaking Barriers, But Broadway Still Has a Long Way to Go On Diversity

Karu F. Daniels
2/05/19 9:00AM
Culture
Culture

Infinite Possibilities: Black Love Matters in Christina Anderson's How to Catch Creation

Maiysha Kai
1/30/19 4:54PM
Television
Television

An Unexpected Adonis: Actor William Jackson Harper Has Found His 'Good Place'

Felice León
1/22/19 11:30AM
Culture
Culture

Rising Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Addresses Backlash Over Controversial Slave Play

Karu F. Daniels
1/07/19 3:13PM
Culture
Culture

African, American: Danai Gurira Hits Home with Her Latest Play, Familiar

Maiysha Kai
12/21/18 11:19AM
Culture
Culture

Review: Dael Orlandersmith's Lady in Denmark Bears the Strange Fruit of Billie Holiday's Legacy

Maiysha Kai
11/01/18 6:30PM
Culture
Culture

Telling Untold Stories: Playwright and Performer Dael Orlandersmith Gets Under Our Skin

Maiysha Kai
10/28/18 3:37PM
The Root Video
The Root Video

Broadway Star Uses His Platform to Bring the Arts to At-Risk Students

Peter J. Rickards
8/06/18 1:35PM
Culture
Culture

Colorism and the Legacy of Plaçage: The House That Will Not Stand Revisits a History Still Relevant Today

Maiysha Kai
7/31/18 3:53PM

2018 Tony Awards: Black Excellence Takes the Stage and Once on the Island Has a Big Win

Maiysha Kai
6/11/18 8:50AM
Culture
Culture

A Hero’s Journey: Father Comes Home From the Wars Is a Reckoning with American History

Maiysha Kai
6/09/18 12:45PM

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters Return, More Relevant Than Ever

Maiysha Kai
5/22/18 1:15PM

Powerful, Immersive Play As Much as I Can Brings Voices of Southern Gay Black Men and HIV/AIDS Awareness to Harlem

Kellee Terrell
5/15/18 9:45AM