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February 2, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Katori Hall's recent play 'The Mountaintop' is a fictional civil rights-era piece set at the Lorraine Motel…
January 31, 2012
CLUTCH - One of our favorite Cosby kids is all grown up and heading to the Great White Way. Actress-turned-producer,…
January 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Currently playing in Baltimore at CENTERSTAGE, a nationally respected artistic venue, 'Gleam' tells the epic story of…
January 11, 2012
The technique -- known as blackface -- has been used by the Schlosspark Theatre in Berlin for its latest production,…
January 9, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Phifer, whose acting career began when he won the lead in director Spike Lee's 'Clockers,' is…
January 4, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Imagine you're in the audience at, say, 'Swan Lake,' and the ballerinas you've been watching suddenly…
December 1, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - You can always count on a few things about the annual Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater…
November 29, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - You will have to buy the book for yourself to figure out where the drug running and…
October 28, 2011
REVIEW - The issue of white privilege and well-meaning white liberalism is the centerpiece of the show...
October 25, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Walker International Communications Group has been contracted to help the Alicia Keys backed production 'Stick Fly' succeed…
October 20, 2011
theGRIO Q&A - theGrio caught up with the playwright, who's currently traveling, to discuss the inspiration behind her new Broadway…
October 14, 2011
PARIS (AP) - Barbary -- the African nurse who raised Othello's ill-fated wife Desdemona -- is at the very center,…
October 13, 2011
REVIEW - 'The Mountaintop' is definitely not your standard narrative of Dr. King as a public figure or the black…
October 10, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - At 74, Bill Cosby says he doesn't want to dawdle...
October 7, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The classic Broadway show 'Annie' is set to be revived on Great White Way in 2012. Oh…
October 4, 2011
VIDEO - Wendell Pierce, star of HBO's Treme and the hit series The Wire, is making sure that the public…
October 4, 2011
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, who is making her Broadway debut as a producer of the Lydia R. Diamond play…
September 28, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Actor-turned-playwright Jeff Talbott's first produced work begins like a screwball comedy. That mood doesn't last, though.…
September 23, 2011
CLUTCH - While it is notoriously difficult to land a play on Broadway, the odds are even steeper for black…
September 15, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The news adds a significant notch to the riches end of Perry's rags-to-riches biography, which, at its…