And why you might never have heard of Ira Aldridge. BY NATASHA FROST AUGUST 7, 2017 In 1824, a young, black New Yorker named Ira Aldridge set sail for England. Within 10 years, he was performing Shakespeare in London’s Covent Garden. By the time 20 more had passed, he had performed for royalty across Europe, made audiences laugh … More The 19th-Century African-American Actor Who Conquered Europe
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 11, 2007 BY CONTRIBUTED BY: ANTHONY DUANE HILL The African Company was the first known black theatre troupe. In 1816, William Henry Brown (1815-1884), a retired West Indian steamship steward, acquired a house on Thomas Street in lower Manhattan, New York. He offered a variety of instrumental and vocal entertainments on Sunday afternoons in his tea garden, … More AFRICAN COMPANY / AFRICAN GROVE THEATRE
We are pleased to announce we will be producing “You Can’t Take it With You,” a delightful comedy written in 1936 when it premiered on Broadway! The play won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and was adapted for the screen as You Can’t Take It with You in 1938, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director. … More Announcing the Spring Play!
In the following account the authors Anthony D. Hill, associate professor of drama at The Ohio State University, and Douglas Q. Barnett, director, producer, and founder of Black Arts/West in Seattle, discuss why they created the Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, the first comprehensive compendium of two centuries of blacks on stage. African American Theatre … More THE BLACK PRESENCE IN THEATER THROUGH THE CENTURIES IN THE HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATER
Reposted from: https://soulofamerica.com/us-cities/new-york-city/black-broadway/ The world-renown theatre district we know as Broadway was first a thriving community of Africans Americans and immigrants in the 1800s. Then around 1850, theatres from downtown began the slow transitional move to midtown for lower real estate prices and enough land required to build new, larger theatres. Before 1895, all Negro … More Black Broadway
Homestead High School Music and Theatre departments are proud to announce our Winter Musical: Little Women. Louisa May Alcott’s beloved story of the adventures of the four March sisters is brought to vivid musical life in Little Women. The Civil War is in full swing, and the March sisters — Meg, the oldest, a romantic, the … More 2021 Winter Musical: Little Women
While we don’t quite know what this school year will fully look like, we as theatre artists are very flexible. We can create art anywhere! So, we are sticking with our original dates. What is up in the air is how we will rehearse and perform the shows, and for some, the shows themselves. At … More 2020-2021 Theatre Season Important Dates
As a high school teacher, I sat through a few inservice days in Febraury and one of those days focused on what I like to call “Life Skills.” My district calls them “Workforce Readiness Skills,” which is just a fancy term for skills every human should have, but in this day and age of technology … More Teaching Life Skills
Repost from TheatreFolk by Kerry Hishon We’re in the midst of a global pandemic and we’ve been thrown into a situation with many unknowns. We don’t know when we’ll be able to safely see our friends and family in person. We don’t know when we’ll be able to go back to school and our daily lives. … More Coping With Social Distancing for Students and Teachers
Hello everyone, Figg here. If you are anything like me, all this online learning is very different than what used to be your daily routine. Once upon a time, I thought I sat in front of my computer too much, oh boy was I wrong! That first week of online learning way back in March … More Computers and Headaches in the time of COVID
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