Raphael Nash News Today

The current Broadway season schedule seemed done and dusted at the start of this month: With an opening night of April 26, the new Kander & Ebb musical New York, New York would be the final production of 2022-23, arriving just a day before the April 27 Tony eligibility cut-off date.

The show, which was commissioned by Lyric and the Houston Grand Opera, is centered on a Black barbershop on Chicago’s South Side.

Enter the apartment of a 1960s bohemian couple in this rarely seen Lorraine Hansberry revival.

Lorraine Hansberry's play about a bohemian couple's contentious marriage and the relationship between intellectualism and activism is being revived in Brooklyn.

The film industry has a history of portraying the experience of Black Americans in a problematic way. Hollywood tends to make films specifically about the trauma of Black people and profits by exploiting that pain. Hollywood has a business mindset and it flocks to the tropes or stories that make the most money. The film...

12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels ...