Now on display at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is an exhibition highlighting the history of Black ...

From the African Grove Theater , founded in 1821 by William Alexander Brown in New York City, to today’s Broadway, Black artists have continually transformed American theater, even when America tried ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Lyceum Series continues this week with a popular tap dance group that has worked with music star Beyoncé and appeared on television shows “So You Think You Can ...

See Chloé Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies LIVE on Sunday, April 7, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, presented by the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. This female tap-dance band — and viral ...

Flashes of footwork and a flurry of sound filled the Debbie Allen Dance Academy as tap dancers gathered for their weekly improvisational jam session. Dancing on and in between the beat, dancers spoke ...

The Los Angeles tap dancing group has had 6 million video views online. — -- With more than a million views on YouTube, female tap dance band the Syncopated Ladies are now showing off their moves ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Nate Jacobs, the Founder and Artistic Director of West Coast Black Theatre ...

Composed for orchestra, The Syncopated Clock was completed in April of 1945. It is 2 minutes and 20 seconds long. It was written in Arlington, Virginia while the composer was stationed in Washington, ...

When choreographer Chloe Arnold first heard Beyoncé command, “Okay ladies, now let’s get in formation,” on the 2016 track “Formation,” the battle cry hit close to home. It perfectly captured Arnold’s ...

Lots of people talk about dirty funk, but few of them know. Usually they mean the New Orleans variety, swamp funk that leaves silty mud between your toes. Sometimes the Philadelphia kind, all sweat, ...

Of the great mid-century film critics, Manny Farber (1917-2008) remains one of the most challenging and best loved. An all-purpose critic as comfortable writing about paintings and jazz music as film ...