“The Color Purple” is in full swing here in Memphis. I attended opening night (Tuesday) at the Orpheum, with the house packed and rightfully so. It is a special story. The book by Alice Walker and the subsequent movie...
I really wasn't in the concert mood but my wife really wanted to attend the 90's Block Party Concert series. So we went. Good call, sweetheart!
Headlined by Teddy Riley and Guy, the tour also featured Dru Hill, Faith Evans,...
Award-winning poets Ranieka Johnson and Aneisha Wright had such a successful run with an event called “Black Chick Monologue” that they decided to take another step forward with “MENace to Society.”
“(We) discussed the day-to-day issues that black women faced,”...
MarQuita Henderson had a vision for how her senior year of high school at GRAD Academy Memphis was going to go.
The 11th-grader was going to continue leading her school’s award-winning poetry team, which she believes changed her life. She...
by Joyce Kyles
Attendees witnessed a future Misty Copeland, Ashley Murphy or Ebony Williams over the Memorial Day weekend as they experienced a magical twist on the broadway classic “Annie” at the Ballet on Wheels Dance School and Company’s End...
By Andy Meek, High Ground News
If you closed your eyes right now and tried to imagine an opera performance - from the players on stage to the musicians, the director and the hired hands behind the scenes - chances...
Billed as an “urban socio-drama” honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers, “King and the 13 Hundred” is slated for a presentation at the Cannon Center for Performing Arts on Sunday night (June 17).
Directed by Ike Griffith, the presentation is...
by Tracy Sow, Special to The New Tri-State Defender
Hattiloo Theatre’s production of “Raisin” is the musical adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s timeless “A Raisin in the Sun,” which depicts a black family’s struggle to achieve the American dream.
Set in segregated...
“Dreamgirls” first premiered on Broadway in 1981 and appeared on the big screen in 2006. Now more than a decade after the movie premiere, the musical has opened for a run through July 15 at Playhouse on the Square.
Playhouse...
By Tracy Sow, Special to TSDMemphis.com
“Crib” is the very realistic story of an African-American female professor, Tracy, in a fierce battle for her tenure in an engaging play being staged at Theatre Works.
Tracy (Lisa Williams) faces off with her emotionally charged star-student athlete Rajon...