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Tuesday, April 12, 2022Discounts • Interviews • Reviews • Special Events
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André De Shields To Leave HADESTOWNAndré De Shields will play his final performance as the original Hermes in the Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Hadestown, on May 29, 2022. The beloved icon received the 2019 Tony Award®, Drama Desk Award®, and Outer Critics Circle Award® for the role, as well as a Grammy Award® for the Best Musical Theatre Album for the show's original cast recording.
For more information about Hadestown and to get tickets to witness De Shields's final performances, visit hadestown.com. And click here to revisit his inspirational Tony Award® acceptance speech.
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UK Playwright Wins Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
The 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to UK playwright Benedict Lombe for her debut play Lava. In a special presentation at Shakespeare's Globe in London, the Blackburn Prize judges presented Lombe with a cash prize of $25,000, and a signed limited-edition print by renowned artist Willem de Kooning, created especially for the Prize. Awarded annually since 1978, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the oldest and largest prize awarded to women+ playwrights. Each of the additional nine Finalists received an award of $5,000.
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MACBETH
TWO WORLD-CLASS ACTORS.
ONE STRICTLY LIMITED ENGAGEMENT.
BE THERE FOR THE THEATRICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON.
Now Playing Through July 10 Only
Longacre Theatre
220 W. 48th Street
New York, NY 10036
DANIEL CRAIG (No Time to Die, A Steady Rain) makes his much-anticipated return to Broadway alongside RUTH NEGGA (Passing, Hamlet), making her Broadway debut, in this world premiere production of Shakespeare’s heart-racing drama MACBETH, directed by Tony Award® winner SAM GOLD (Hamlet, Othello, Fun Home).
A tale of malice, matrimony, and murder, MACBETH tells the story of one couple’s obsession with power—and their guilt after doing the unthinkable. For 15 weeks only, this thrilling new production will capture the passion and ferocity of Shakespeare’s most
haunting text like never before.
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Wedding Band
A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
By Alice Childress
Directed by Awoye Timpo
April 23 - May 15, 2022
Presented by Theatre For A New Audience at
Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tickets
$65 with code WTG65
(reg. $90)
Groups 10+
$50
$20 New Deal tickets are available for those ages 30 and under or full-time students of any age. Best seats. All shows. Must have valid ID. Learn more at tfana.org/newdeal.
To purchase tickets:
Click here | Call 212.229.2819 x10 | In-Person Polonsky Shakespeare Center Box Office,
262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY
Set in the deep south at the end of World War I during the flu epidemic, Alice Childress’s seldom-produced masterpiece traces a devoted interracial couple’s caustic confrontations with anti-miscegenation laws, vicious family racism, community disapproval, and finally deadly disease and their own long-buried feelings. Awoye Timpo directs the play’s first New York production since its NY premiere at the Public Theater in 1972.
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| Off-Broadway: Now Playing
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ConfederatesBy Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Stori Ayers
Extended! Now - April 24, 2022
Signature Theatre | Pershing Square Signature Center 480 W. 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
Tickets start at $40
For tickets and more info: Click here
Call: 212.244.7529
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Little Girl Blue
Written and Performed by Laiona Michelle
Directed by Devanand Janki
New World Stages
340 W. 50th Street | New York, NY 10019
Tickets: Orch and Front Mezz $59 (reg $79)
Rear and Side Mezz $39 (reg $49) with code LGWKTL59 for performances through April 17.
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New Black Fest: Readings
$25
Friday, April 22 at 7:00 pm ET
Saturday, April 23 at 7:00 pm ET
Monday, April 25 at 7:00 pm ET
Soundstage at The Apollo
253 W. 125th Street | New York, NY 10027
The Apollo Theater's New Black Fest kicks off a 3-night series premiering newly commissioned works! Be among the first audiences to experience staged readings of the brand-new works exploring how Harlem Renaissance-era artists and contemporary creatives alike have used their work as an outlet to grapple with the societal issues of their time. Featured playwrights include James Ijames, Eric Micha Holmes, Dahlak Brathwaite, Donja R. Love, Dennis A. Allen II, Christina Anderson,
Mfoniso Udofia, and more!
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In Solidarity:
Asian/Black Night
GONG LUM'S LEGACY
By Charles L. Wright
Directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke
Theatre at St. Clements
423 W. 46th Street
New York, NY 10036
Saturday, April 16 @ 7:30 pm
All Tickets are $20
(Select the Asian/Black Night option when making your purchase).
The Mississippi Delta. 1925. An unexpected romance blooms between Joe Ting, a Chinese Immigrant, and Lucy Sims, a Black school teacher in GONG LUM'S LEGACY
Don't miss an extraordinary performance followed by a riveting talkback with playwright Charles L. Wright, Michael Dinwiddie (Associate Professor, Dramatic Writing, NYU-Gallatin School of Individualized Study), and Dr. Jack Tchen (Director, Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience; Professor-Federated Department of
History-Rutgers-Newark and NJIT.)
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Live Theater Has Returned!
Exciting • Extraordinary • Entertaining
Choose Walk Tall Girl Productions to book a fully satisfying and affordable theatergoing experience for all, especially students on Broadway, Off-Broadway and beyond!
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In Conversation with TYRONE MITCHELL HENDERSON and CHRIS MYERS
Meet Tyrone Mitchell Henderson, actor, teacher, mentor, and craftsman, currently appearing in The Skin of Our Teeth at Lincoln Center Theater, and Obie Award winner Chris Myers who gets to share the stage with Mary Louise Parker and David Morse in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive at Manhattan Theatre Club. Two actors.Two generations, Both making their Broadway debut. Join us on Thursday, April 14 at 9 pm for a conversation about staying the course when life suggests a change of
direction on the next Backstage Stories.
Backstage Stories | Thursdays | 9:00 pm | WBAI 99.5 FM | WBAI.ORGHosted and Produced by Marcia Pendelton
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