Impacters of Yesterday
Ruby Dee Born: October 27, 1924 Cleveland, Ohio African American actress Ruby Dee’s acting career has spanned more than fifty years and has included theater, radio, television, and movies. She has also been active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Congress of […]
Read moreTheatre Communications Group
TCG Mission To strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre. Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, was founded in 1961 with a grant from the Ford Foundation to foster communication among professional, community and university theatres. Today, TCG’s constituency has grown from a handful of groundbreaking theatres to […]
Read moreThe Broadway League
The Broadway League 729 Seventh Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY 10019 (212) 764-1122 The Broadway League is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. There are 600-plus members who include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the commercial theatre industry. […]
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Making Music Mightier Than the Sword
By BEN BRANTLEY There should be dancing in the streets. When you leave the Eugene O’Neill Theater after a performance of “Fela!,” it comes as a shock that the people on the sidewalks are merely walking. Why aren’t they gyrating, swaying, vibrating, in thrall to the force field that you have been living in so ecstatically for […]
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Impact Broadway – Spotlight
Hello, my name is Katrina Mackey and I’m a senior at McKinney Highschool of the Arts in Brooklyn New York. I got involved with Impact Broadway in my junior year when Ms. Donna came to our school with several of her colleagues and introduced the concept. In short they explained to me and other founding […]
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Bronx – La Isla Bonita
When you think about La Isla Bonita… you usually think about Puerto Rico (especially when you speak about Bodiquan people living on it). Well, the Pregones Theater stretches your understanding of the diaspora with its premier productiona. Aloha Boricua is Pregones’ new musical play about the first Puerto Ricans to set foot on the Hawaiian […]
Read moreStaten Island – COAHSI
When you think about Staten Island, so many things come to mind in regards to the arts. There seems to be a little something for everyone. Please go over to http://www.statenislandarts.org/cultural-calendar.html and check out the collection of COAHSI Cultural Calendar and see what this great organization has pulled together for your enjoyment. And if you […]
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