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Ray Charles musical heading for Broadway
12:41 PM on 03/12/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - A musical celebrating Ray Charles is headed for Broadway later this year...
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'Ameriville': Stories of Hurricane Katrina still alive onstage
7:48 AM on 02/15/2010
OPINION - 'Ameriville', which is currently on tour, uses the colliding forces of race, class, and politics in post-Katrina New Orleans to explore America's moral zip code...
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TheGrio's 100: Tyler Perry, media giant still growing
5:10 AM on 02/01/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Growing up working class in New Orleans trying to avoid his father's beatings isn't the typical background of a Hollywood mogul...
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'Thriller' accepted into National Film Registry
10:20 AM on 12/30/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, with that unforgettable graveyard dance, will rest among the nation's treasures in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings...
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'Fela' brings Nigeria to Broadway
8:04 AM on 11/23/2009
VIDEO - Walk into the Eugene O'Neill Theater in New York City, and you'll see it's decked out in African masks, revolutionary murals, disco balls, a map of Africa...
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'Passing Strange': from stage to the big screen
11:01 AM on 08/21/2009
From Essence.com: From concert to musical and now film, "Passing Strange" is like no other performance. The highly acclaimed, semi-autobiographical Broadway rock musical is about a young Black musician who rebels against his middle-class upbringing in search of his personal and artistic identity. In the hands of über-director Spike Lee,...
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Off-Broadway play tells story of a slave's race for freedom
2:15 PM on 06/22/2009
JULIA MAYES TheGrio.com went behind the scenes at New York City's 59E59 Theater's "Pure Confidence," a play about an African-American horse jockey who is also a slave. Set in the Civil War era, the play explores the struggle for triumph and enduring love in a race for freedom. Check out...
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