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The Ensemble Theatre is a non-profit organization founded by George Hawkins in 1976 as a touring company that rehearsed in a church basement. [2] In 2003, the company was awarded $250,000 from the Houston Endowment Inc., with which it retired its original capital campaign debt and made some improvements to the facility. Since 1991, Houston ...
The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."
Usher performed as the headliner for the concert in celebration of Black Heritage night at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. June 25–29, July 1–6, 2014 Summerfest: Usher performed as the headliner for the last night of the festival at Marcus Amphitheater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with Bebe Rexha as his supporting act.
Sterling Houston (1945 – November 8, 2006) was an African-American experimental playwright, actor, musician and prose writer renowned for his works of social commentary exploring black and gay identity. His plays encompassed multiple theatrical genres, including musicals, dramas and comedies.
Leave it to multi-hyphenate Donald Glover to reimagine what a Black comedy series looks like. Atlanta is known as one of the most daring television shows of the last 20 years, with Glover taking ...
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Good Times (CBS, 1974-79). Premise: In the spin-off of Maude from producer Norman Lear, the Evans family tries to make it work in the Cabrini-Green housing projects of Chicago.James (John Amos ...
The American Negro Theatre (ANT) was co-founded on June 5, 1940 by playwright Abram Hill and actor Frederick O'Neal. [1] Determined to build a "people's theatre", they were inspired by the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Unit in Harlem and by W. E. B. Du Bois' "four fundamental principles" of Black drama: that it should be by, about, for, and near African Americans.