After accepting an Emmy Sunday night for his role as a producer on the live musical Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, which won the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) award, John Legend became the first black man to collect...
Assuming you haven't stuffed yourself silly with barbecue and you're looking for a way to relax and chill this Labor Day, you might need to get to Fresh Ideas Entertainment's Bluff City Jazz Festival at the Cannon Center.
The Festival will...
Ekundayo Bandele and Hattiloo Theatre first staged “Mahalia” in 2007. Each subsequent production has been special in its own way, as will the 2018 rendition.
Civil rights activist. Gospel singer. Restaurant owner. Musical pioneer. These are just a few of...
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...
“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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...