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The musical "Jelly's Last Jam" at New York City Center stars Joaquina Kalukango, who took Broadway by storm in “Paradise Square.”

When the Encores! series returned to City Center in 2022 following the pandemic shutdown, its initial season back began with rocky, uneasily revised

Thirty-two years on, Allison M. Williams, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Mamie Duncan-Gibbs are still shepherding Jelly Roll Morton to the afterlife.

That painful history can be alchemized into thrilling entertainment is both the central idea and the takeaway experience of “Jelly’s Last Ja

Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form’s founding fathers.

George C. Wolfe’s musical returns in a thrilling new production staged by Robert O’Hara.

A riveting warts-and-nothing-else revival of the Jelly Roll Morton bio-musical opened Wednesday at the New York City Center through Encores!

George C. Wolfe’s 1992 musical gets a short lightly staged run at City Center, and from tap to vocals, it’s an astonishing achievement.

Read the reviews for Jelly's Last Jam at New York City Center, starring Billy Porter and more.

NEW YORK CITY CENTER has revealed additional casting for Jelly’s Last Jam the second production of the 30th Encores! series.