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Can we package that? . . .We come from all corners of the country, those who return year after year along with those who have just learned about the Network and are coming for the first time. We come to parade the good side of us. We gather in a space that we claim for ourselves and that we anoint with passion. Together we create an environment that allows us to shine and glow collectively, freely, isolated from the all that “jazz” that crowds our days with so many responsibilities, that leaves little time for personal stuff, even less for Black theatre. Conference time is time to (re)build the Network. Let’s face it, for many this is the time they have saved for BTN. READ MORE |
Breathe, Don’t Forget to Breathe There are pieces of advice you carry with you for life. The simplest ones sometimes turn out to be the most profound and those that have the biggest impact. For me, a crucial one came many years ago from my dissertation adviser as I was preparing for my defense: Breathe, don’t forget to breathe, was all he said. My dissertation was not on anything related to theatre—it was on the “Electrical Conductivity of Mn(Me) Sulfides”—nonetheless, I felt like an actor preparing to step on the stage for the performance of a lifetime ... READ MORE |
eta: making the netWORK! Katori Hall’s Hoodoo Love will close eta Creative Arts Foundation’s 42nd season, “Shades of Blue: Resurrected Works and Reclaimed Music.” BTN 6th President Dr. Mikell Pinkney, who facilitated a panel discussion at the onset of the season, says: “The works of African-American playwrights of the past are resurrected and joined by current writers to illuminate a shared artistic sensibility rooted in the sorrow, pain and joy of blues music and a literary blues aesthetic.” The season included The Amen Corner, Ceremonies and Dark Old Men, Wine in the Wilderness and Florence, and Jar the Floor.
In the spirit of the upcoming BTN conference, making the netWORK!, eta brings together a team of BTN members to work in different capacities. READ MORE |
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eta: making the netWORK!
Black Theatre Network Members Collaborate on Hoodoo Love
Katori Hall’s Hoodoo Love will close eta Creative Arts Foundation’s 42nd season, “Shades of Blue: Resurrected Works and Reclaimed Music.” BTN 6th President Dr. Mikell Pinkney, who facilitated a panel discussion at the onset of the season, says: “The works of African-American playwrights of the past are resurrected and joined by current writers to illuminate a shared artistic sensibility rooted in the sorrow, pain and joy of blues music and a literary blues aesthetic.” The season included The Amen Corner, Ceremonies and Dark Old Men, Wine in the Wilderness and Florence, and Jar the Floor.
Hoodoo Love is directed by BTN’s Immediate Past President Artisia Green. In the spirit of the upcoming BTN conference, making the netWORK!, eta brings together a team of BTN members to work in different capacities. READ MORE
Dr. Sandra Shannon and Dr. Sandra Shannon, BTN 11th President, lends her talents as adviser and contractor for August Wilson: The Ground On Which I Stand, the first in-depth documentary on the life, work and cultural impact of the great playwright, visionary and friend of BTN. WQED and PBS will co produce the project that will air as a 90-minute high-definition television documentary in the American Masters 2015 series. Award winning filmmaker Sam Pollard has been tapped to spearhead this effort. |
Selected Plays by Alice Childress - Edited by Kathy A. Perkins. As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952) and the first woman to win an Obie for Best Play (for Trouble in Mind, in 1956), Alice Childress occupies an important but surprisingly under-recognized place in American drama. . . . Read More
Theorizing Black Theatre: Art vs Protest in Critical Writings 1898 - 1965 - By Henry Miller. Henry Miller brings the heart of a dramaturg over the role of Black Theatre--is it for the sake of building a set of aesthetically strong dramatic art . . . or for the sake of propagandizing a point of view? Read More
Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater. An Anthology Edited and with an Introduction by Daniel Banks The phenomenon known as Hip Hop encompasses a global, multiethnic, grassroots culture committed to social justice and self-expression through performance. Hip Hop Theater emerged from that culture, mixing spoken-word performance with music and dance and marked by Hip Hop's strong sense of activism and resistance. . . Read More
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 - by Koritha Mitchell. Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black church members, schoolchildren, and families.e.. . . Read More
- Sesquicentennial events focus on African American history
- A treasury of African-American history needs a home
- African-American Lecture series continues at History Center
- Oprah Winfrey Hands Out $12m To African American History Museum
- Winfrey Gives Millions To New African-American Museum In D.C.
- Oprah Winfrey donates $12 million to African American history museum
- Oprah giving $12M to new African-American museum
- Winfrey giving $12M to new African-American museum
- Oprah Winfrey donates $12 million to Smithsonian’s African American museum
- African American community's history in Covington is topic of June 23 presentation
- Actors Resources (9)
Here are some resouces that might be useful to actors. The listing of a reaource does not imply an endorsement by the Black Theatre Network
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Obama honors Carole King at White House concert
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, saluting Carole King's five decades as an award-winning singer-songwriter, said Wednesday that music often is a place where people seek comfort and inspiration during trying times.Page 1 of 34
