Get ready for goosebumps. Viola Davis is Ma Rainey—and she’s superb.
The screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, will premiere on Netflix December …
Diversity & Inclusion
There was a killing in Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre building: Folks are feeling it.
Danny Gavigan is a resident company member of Everyman Theatre and over the years, we’ve enjoyed his spot-on performances in …
Timelines can be an effective way of presenting actions over time. Here’s a stellar example.
I turned to a news channel a few minutes ago. I watched a woman say, “I don’t recognize our country …
The Burger King plants a big one on Ronald McDonald. And yes, it’s a thing!
Burger King Finland’s campaign “Love conquers all” is a celebration of love and all the forms it takes. A new …
One of Broadway’s hottest tickets is free to all this year. The standing-room-only show is virtual for 2020.
The first Broadway Bares was presented in 1992 by Jerry Mitchell and the company of The Will Rogers Follies at …
“We need to change the world one 5-year-old at a time,” Marlo Thomas on Free to Be…You and Me.
In the spring of 1974, LaRae Petrovich and I ran into each other in the office break room. She asked …
The Stonewall Inn, the first national gay historic landmark in the U.S. is in a bind. Can you help?
I don’t typically share information about fund-raising campaigns, but these aren’t typical times and The Stonewall Inn isn’t a typical …
Sharing The New Yorker’s interactive cover for June 22, 2020. Kadir Nelson’s “Say Their Names.”
Profoundly powerful on Juneteenth; tragic and relevant every single day. Click to experience Say Their Names. I lived through this …
David Oyelowo is powerful as Martin Luther King Jr—you can watch the movie, SELMA at no charge.
Selma, director Ava DuVernay’s biopic about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is free to watch and rent on streaming services …
Connecting the World with Words: A conversation on relevance during a time of virus and unrest.
Connecting the World with Words From the National Book Festival Presents series—Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, and Lonnie Bunch, Smithsonian Institution …
It’s PRIDE month and the 50th anniversary of the post-Stonewall march. Here’s a must-see video.
I know a thing or two about LGBTQ marches and parades—I joined my first one in Greenwich Village five decades …
Free theatre in HD: The Lincoln Center production of The King & I from the London Palladium.
Here’s an extraordinary treat for you. Playbill®, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, and BroadwayHD have teamed up to present the …
5, 6, 7, 8! A Chorus Line cast reunites (virtually) to recreate I Hope I Get It, the Quarantine edition.
This video will make you want to jump out of your chair, take a pivot step, and walk, walk, walk. …
Face coverings are now mandated in Baltimore, but it doesn’t mean we have to lose our sense of style.
I received an email from a local watering hole this morning that made me smile broadly. It also caused Jacob …
Central Park features 23 statues of historical figures; not one honors a woman. That’s changing.
Actually, there are two figural statues of women in Central Park, but they’re monuments to Mother Goose and Alice of …
Dulé Hill reads “As Fast As Words Could Fly.” A wonderful, thoughtful, & teachable 16 minutes.
I joined Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists—now, SAG-AFTRA—in 1972. For the past 48 …
A new Library of Congress exhibition showcases Rosa Parks through her own words and rare documents.
Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words opens December 5 and showcases rarely seen materials that offer an intimate view of Rosa …
A new musical is coming to off-Broadway during PRIDE Month: With a title like this, it’s bound to be fun.
Camp Morning Wood is billed as Rocky Horror meets Naked Boys Singing. Directed by Marc Eardley and choreographed by Ian Coulter-Buford and Jay Falzone, …
THE MET celebrates International Women’s Day with a Heilbrunn Timeline of Women artists.
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art created a timeline of women artists and their work as part of their …
Not all Christmas gifts are wrapped in shiny holiday paper and tied up with fancy bows.
This video is wonderful. I so admire @rosiestheatrekids—an organization that gets results that matter—results that change lives. RTKids was launched …
