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For its Black History Month season opener, the venerable M Ensemble Company is giving a new generation of patrons a chance to experience a true piece of American theater history

"Arguably the most successful Black theatre group in the world,” (American Theatre) the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), Penn Live Arts’ 2022-23 season artist in residence, performs Mecca is Burning, a world premiere play that examines the current social climate through the perspective of four Harlem families.

The Oscar award-winning costume designer teamed up with adidas, Marvel, and Disney for the innovative wardrobe seen in 'Wakanda Forever'.

He was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, “A Soldier’s Story.”

The writer's body of work also includes One Night... and Zooman and the Sign .

At 83, the filmmaker behind “Cooley High” and “Car Wash” may be the longest-working Black director in history. His own story is a Hollywood epic.

As a Black woman, she blazed a path Off Broadway with an intuitive grasp of “how a story should be told, particularly a Black story,” Giancarlo Esposito said.

Samuel L. Jackson and Viola Davis are both veterans of the New York theater scene, and...

See the video where Samuel L. Jackson visibly reacts to losing the Oscar to another actor at the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony.

[WATCH] Denzel Washington Hands Samuel L. Jackson His First Oscar | Film icon Samuel L. Jackson has received his first Oscar.