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June 27, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The Lydia R. Diamond work is described as a contemporary comedy of manners revolving around an…
June 23, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Angela Bassett has signed on to star opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway production of…
June 16, 2011
Blair Underwood will make his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire', to be staged…
June 12, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Nikki M. James, who plays a potential love interest to a pair of missionaries who travel…
June 10, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Though there are several shows on Broadway employing the talents of black actors, many are wondering, what…
June 3, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The life story of Josephine Baker is coming to Broadway in _Josephine_ starring Deborah Cox...
May 5, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Visitors to the currently closed show's website are immediately greeted with the message "Bring the Scottsboro Boys…
May 5, 2011
theGRIO Q&A - Sanaa Lathan reflects on her recent hiatus from films to focus on once-in-a-lifetime roles in theater, what's…
May 3, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The predominantly African-American cast of Broadway's 'The Scottsboro Boys' cleaned up with a total of 12 Tony…
April 18, 2011
She was scheduled to make her Broadway debut in September, but Halle Berry has just dropped out of a highly…
April 15, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The play, by Katori Hall, made its debut in London in 2009. It had been rumored…
April 14, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The Broadway cast of "Fela" introduced Afrobeat superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to hundreds of thousands of new…
March 7, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Rock says acting on stage isn't too far from his roots doing live stand-up or acting…
February 17, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The producers and playwright behind the Broadway play "Lombardi" aren't done with sports just yet...
February 2, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Sanaa Lathan will star in the world premiere of Lynn Nottage's new play, "Meet Vera Stark"...
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Kenny Leon seeks out performance art that combines a sense of history with modern appeal...
January 26, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The film is being developed by Overbrook Entertainment, which the Smiths co-own, along with Shawn "Jay-Z"…
January 20, 2011
While details about the "Annie" retooling are still in development stages, rapper Jay-Z, who worked with Willow on her pop…
December 16, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - The play centers on a Jewish widow and her deepening friendship with her African-American chauffeur...
December 16, 2010
Simmons last appeared on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' Not About Nightingales and in Howard Korder's Search and Destroy...