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Monday, July 29, 2019
Welcome to the 16th Biennial National Black Theatre Festival® Connect with the Marvtastic passion, splendor and valor of the African and the African American cultures as Black Theatre takes center stage in Winston-Salem, NC over six exciting days. Take advantage of our free workshops, FilmFest, Readers’ [...]
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The Tony award-winning musical that tells the true story of Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, a.k.a. Jelly Roll Morton, the self-proclaimed "inventor of Jazz." Featuring explosive dance and an original score inspired by the best musical traditions of New [...]
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Based on the historic Jena Six case, this play takes a hypothetical, multiple perspective look at the racial chaos of a high school in Jena, Louisiana resulting from the questionable arrest of six African American students for the [...]
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The powerful story of Bass Reeves, a freed slave who protected the Wild West as the first African-American United States Deputy Marshal. Reeves was a real-life cowboy who many believe inspired the Lone Ranger character. Performed by: The Layon Gray American Theatre Company New York, [...]
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A young theater intern and Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka debate fundamental questions of theater, aesthetics, and artistic expression, weighing the added responsibility of artists of color. What is Black Theatre? How is it defined and by whom? What is [...]
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Two reporters track the journeys of 3 attendees on the day of the 1963 March on Washington. Based on personal interviews , freedom songs sung and using the 3's actual words, we capture their motivation to attend, and [...]
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night before his tragic assassination receives a fictional retelling in this award-winning play that pairs MLK with Camae, a beautiful maid who offers room service, conversation, and deeper understanding about life, purpose, [...]
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A dance interpretation of the Disney movie “The Lion King.” An adaptation of the Broadway musical. This is the story of a lion cub’s journey to adulthood and acceptance of his royal destiny. This production features a predominately [...]
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The 2009 Pulitzer Prize play, set in war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, follows Mama Nadi, who runs a brothel where she protects and profits from women whose bodies have become battlegrounds by the brutality of rape and [...]
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A world premiere Celebrity Staged Reading of Maya (working title), by Nambi E. Kelley. Maya is a new play inspired by the life of Dr. Maya Angelou and commissioned by the North Carolina Black Repertory Company. The world premiere production of Maya will take place in [...]
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