Oppressed voices ring out in Toni Morrison's 'Othello'
PARIS (AP) - Barbary -- the African nurse who raised Othello's ill-fated wife Desdemona -- is at the very center, the beating heart, of Toni Morrison's bold re-imagining of the tragedy...
'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...
Bill Cosby, Chita Rivera to share NYC benefit show
NEW YORK (AP) - At 74, Bill Cosby says he doesn't want to dawdle...
Are audiences ready for a black 'Annie'?
theGRIO REPORT - The classic Broadway show 'Annie' is set to be revived on Great White Way in 2012. Oh and did we mention? In a new twist, the role of Annie may be played by an African-American girl...
Star of HBO's 'Treme' backs play on George Stinney, Jr.
VIDEO - Wendell Pierce, star of HBO's Treme and the hit series The Wire, is making sure that the public at large knows the story of George Stinney, Jr.-- the youngest person executed in the US...
Alicia Keys will pen score for Broadway's 'Stick Fly'
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, who is making her Broadway debut as a producer of the Lydia R. Diamond play Stick Fly, will also compose the original score to the play...
'The Submission' is a raw look at racism
NEW YORK (AP) - Actor-turned-playwright Jeff Talbott's first produced work begins like a screwball comedy. That mood doesn't last, though. It ends more like a horror movie -- the evil inside...
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...
How Tyler Perry became Hollywood's highest paid man
theGRIO REPORT - The news adds a significant notch to the riches end of Perry's rags-to-riches biography, which, at its lowest point, saw him homeless and trying repeatedly to gain footing with his plays...
Morgan Freeman to star in Prop 8 play on Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) - On Wednesday, producers announced some of the cast members who will perform in Dustin Lance Black's play "8'' as part of a fundraiser at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Sept. 19...
