We are pleased to feature James Anthony Tyler’s “Dolphins and Sharks” for a 2nd time!
Our first “Man Crush” or “Man Candy” is none other than playwright, Aurin Squire!
Our Women Crushes of the Week are Nikkole Salter and Danai Gurira! Here’s a story In 2005, my senior year of college, I had the pleasure of meeting Nikkole Salter and Danai Gurira during my spring break trip to New York City. I came to see “In the Continuum“, their multi-award winning play, stayed for …
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH! Something feels different this year about Black History Month – namely #oscarssowhite… If one can call it a movement, then maybe we are in the midst of real change. Spike Lee wants us, black creators, “In the room where it happens” as the Hamilton Lyrics go. Nevertheless, Blackboard has two events …
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SUICIDAL MOMENTS by Turron Kofi Alleyne Monday, December 14, 2015 7:30pm RSVP: info@blackboardplays.com ~wine and refreshments served~ $10 Suggested Donation ABOUT THE PLAY “Suicidal Moments” is a story about Barry Douglass who was deeply stricken the moment his mother was killed and his father was paralyzed in a car accident. Despite this hardship; Barry’s older …
Vengeance and greed blind the citizens of Hood:14542, during a harsh awakening of the gentrification epidemic.
Yellow Man faces infamy as he returns to rehabilitate the hood. While his equally stubborn brother and other neighborhood dwellers are determined to save it.
Race, ego, lust, and blood rule this play in an impassioned debate of community and opportunity.
ABOUT THE PLAY In How to Eat an Oreo, two teen summer camps sit a stone’s throw apart. Fatima has fled the gay-to-straight conversion center, and is hiding out in Gideon’s room at weight loss camp. While Fatima awaits the sunset to make her official escape to Wal-Mart, her and Gideon navigate around one another, …
With both Ferguson and Staten Island on our minds, the planning of Khalil Kain’s “Lambs to Slaughter” was purely coincidental. “Lambs To Slaughter” tells the story of a mourning single mother living alone now in the city after the murder of her son Emmett.
Directed by Christopher Burris Featuring… IONI – Jennifer Fouche MISS MARIAH/MARIAH – Lizan Mitchell JERRY/GILBERT/PROFESSOR/EMILE – Paul Nugent CHARLES/CHARLES JERICHO DE GAST – Michael Chenevert JERICHO/FRANCOIS JERICHO DE GAST – Lorenzo Scott LISA-THOMAS/JACQUELINE JERICHO DE GAST – Tjasa Ferme ATTENDANT/MICHEL – G. Alvarez Reid ART STUDENTS/REPORTERS/VARIOUS M– — USEUM GUESTS – Jay Akin ABOUT THE …