Brandon Victor Dixon

Off-Broadway Review: “Hell’s Kitchen” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Closed Sunday, January 7, 2024 and Opens on Broadway Saturday, April 20, 2024)

Immediately after the first number in the new musical “Hell’s Kitchen” which is a loosely based auto biographical story about musician Alicia Keys growing up and coming of age during the late nineties in the New York City neighborhood which the show is named after, you get the feeling this might be headed to Broadway. That assumption would be right…

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Off-Broadway Review: The New Group’s “Black No More” at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Closed Sunday, February 27, 2022)

A clue in in the “New York Times” crossword puzzle on Tuesday, February 15th was “Prefix with futurism.” The correct answer: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined as “a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy to explore the African-American experience and aims to connect those from the black diaspora with their forgotten African ancestry.” In 1931, George S. Schuyler explores the Afrofuturism literary…

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Billy Porter’s New Album: Full Tracklist and Collaborations Announced for the Tony and Grammy Award-Winner

Tony and Grammy Award-Winner Billy Porter’s new studio album, “Billy Porter Presents The Soul of Richard Rodgers,” will be released April 14, 2017 and will be available for pre-order tomorrow (Friday, March 3), it was announced today by Bee & El and Sony Masterworks Broadway.  The album, which features new, soulful takes on classic Richard Rodgers songs, includes solos and…

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