The World of Black Theater Becomes Ever Bigger
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The word in the industry is that urban theater â or what has been called over the years inspirational theater, black Broadway, gospel theater and the chitlin circuit â is about to go mainstream.
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Lest anyone think that a play with three ethnic slurs in its title is going to dance around the subject of race and the limits of tolerable discourse, be advised that the bombshells are hurled from its opening moments.
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The forthcoming theater calendar seems distinguished by its fixation on invention.
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Opportunism and indignation helped power Conrad M. Blackâs rise to the heights of media life.
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In addition to  high-octane energy and a dazzling level of professionalism, the  new national tour of "Rent" (making its first appearance at the  Pantages) is guided by a relentless aesthetic that might be  described as:
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The Metropolitan Opera is vastly expanding its broadcast presence, transmitting six live performances to movie theaters in North America and Europe this season and broadcasting more than 100 live over the Internet or on digital radio.
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The density of billboards advertising tobacco products is more than twice as high in black neighborhoods as in white.
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Keeping opera alive in the age of the  Internet and hip hop is no easy task, so when Donna  Walker-Kuhne seeks to convince black Americans to come to a  show, she dares not open conversation with the &quot;O&quot; word.
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Long before the curtain was raised in Birmingham on a play called âBehzti,â it was known that several elements of the production could cause offense to some members of the audience.
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In âPaprika,â a gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close.
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Three New York theater productions offer contrasting coming-of-age tales.
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Much of the most interesting and enterprising theater in New York starts Off Broadway, even if it doesnât necessarily stay there.
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The notorious show from London uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Actually, in terms of the bigger social picture, it&#39;s way past time network TV built another hour-long drama around a black actor.
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The film industry seems to have caught a strange new disease. ItÂs being given the name of `Black` magic.
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"The Apprentice" is moving from glitzy Fifth Avenue to neon-lit Broadway.
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The screen got bigger this  year and the luminaries slightly more illustrious.