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LATEST SHOWS
The KIng of Love
Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, NY. They performed "Why? (The King of Love is Dead)," a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King's death.
Karl Jenkins, better known as Philadelphian hip hop artist Dice Raw, has written and produced The King of Love, a theatrical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Coming Soon
The Forgotten Founding Fathers
The Forgotten Founding Fathers is a hip hop dance theatrical odyssey. Starring Vernon Keith Ruffin Jr. aka Keith From Up The Block. Ruffin plays multiple African American real life characters that were monumental in the American Revolutionary War and through the Reconstruction era.
THE Last Jimmy
The roughly 2 hour live version of The Last Jimmy includes theatrical performances weaved between the singles from the acclaimed concept album on Black male incarceration.
Box
Starring hip hop legend Karl “Dice Raw” Jenkins and directed by Phill Brown, Box uses theater as a tool for education and reeducation. Henry Box Brown was a slave who read and wrote poetry, practiced magic, sang in a church choir, and was a hypnotist. He performed all around the world and once freed, publicly expressed his political views.
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