Songs from “Showing Up,” a cabaret of music composed from the words of NYC Black Lives Matter activists photographed by Accra Shepp, are now on Soundcloud.
Blair Nodelman discusses why theatremakers are so well-suited to deeply understanding the political machine and work toward dismantling the status quo.
A time capsule revealed a “letter to the future” written by Barbara Ann Teer, founder of the National Black Theatre. How can her words inspire us today?
Reunited after the shutdown, the cast of Theater of War Production’s “Antigone in Ferguson” provide comfort to the afflicted just as they did when the show first premiered in 2016.
In their first live performance since the shutdown, two theater veterans read Frederick Douglass’s historic speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” on its 168th anniversary, baptizing Brooklyn’s Black Lives Matter mural.
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