WATCH: Alicia Keys on black Broadway
VIDEO - Keys co-produced the Broadway play 'Stick Fly', in addition to composing the music that fills the transitions between scenes...
theGrio's 100: Katori Hall, rising Broadway theatrical star
theGRIO's 100 - Katori Hall's recent play 'The Mountaintop' is a fictional civil rights-era piece set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis the night before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated...
Kenny Leon’s ‘Mountaintop’ finishes Broadway run with a profit
Kenny Leon's production 'The Mountaintop' (inspired by Martin Luther King's last days and written by Katori Hall), has had great success on Broadway...
Angela Bassett 'loving' her return to Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) - It's a rich, physical, delicious part after years of scraps and a reminder of Angela Bassett's prodigious power...
Samuel L. Jackson sets record at the box office
CLUTCH - Samuel L. Jackson has been named the highest-grossing actor of all time by The Guinness Book of World Records, according to the New York Daily News...
'Mountaintop' creator portrays 'human' MLK
theGRIO Q&A - theGrio caught up with the playwright, who's currently traveling, to discuss the inspiration behind her new Broadway show starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett...
'Mountaintop' portrays a more down to earth MLK
REVIEW - 'The Mountaintop' is definitely not your standard narrative of Dr. King as a public figure or the black saint who much of civil rights lore makes him out to be...
Black women ready to take Broadway by storm
CLUTCH - While it is notoriously difficult to land a play on Broadway, the odds are even steeper for black women...
Lauryn Hill sued for stiffing a band member out of thousands of dollars
The lawsuit also claims that the former Fugee was verbally abusive towards band members on a 2007 tour...
Branford Marsalis to compose music for Broadway's 'Mountaintop'
Branford Marsalis (Fences) has joined the creative team as composer of original music for the upcoming Broadway premiere of the new play The Mountaintop...
