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]]> https://routes-mag.com/dark-noon/feed/ 0 https://routes-mag.com/lets-talk-about-broadways-tony-oversights-and-canaries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lets-talk-about-broadways-tony-oversights-and-canaries https://routes-mag.com/lets-talk-about-broadways-tony-oversights-and-canaries/#respond Tue, 07 Jun 2022 08:34:53 +0000 https://routes-mag.com/?p=39860 Broadway is to NYC is what Hollywood is to LA the TONY Awards are equivalent to the Academy Awards. The TONY Awards for the 2021/22

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/lets-talk-about-broadways-tony-oversights-and-canaries/feed/ 0 https://routes-mag.com/say-their-names-the-cast-crew-of-for-colored-girls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=say-their-names-the-cast-crew-of-for-colored-girls https://routes-mag.com/say-their-names-the-cast-crew-of-for-colored-girls/#respond Fri, 27 May 2022 12:25:58 +0000 https://routes-mag.com/?p=39773 Ntozake Shange’s classic choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, has a gorgeous Broadway revival happening at the Booth

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/say-their-names-the-cast-crew-of-for-colored-girls/feed/ 0 https://routes-mag.com/the-skin-of-our-teeth-is-full-of-non-stop-absurdities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-skin-of-our-teeth-is-full-of-non-stop-absurdities https://routes-mag.com/the-skin-of-our-teeth-is-full-of-non-stop-absurdities/#respond Sun, 15 May 2022 13:25:50 +0000 https://routes-mag.com/?p=39581  “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a bumpy night!” Bette Davis’s iconic quip sums up”The Skin of Our Teeth”, a limited run Broadway revival now

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/the-skin-of-our-teeth-is-full-of-non-stop-absurdities/feed/ 0 https://routes-mag.com/freight-the-five-incarnations-of-abel-green/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freight-the-five-incarnations-of-abel-green https://routes-mag.com/freight-the-five-incarnations-of-abel-green/#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:50:24 +0000 http://routes-mag.com/?p=17736 I have seen many wonderful plays in the past several weeks, but none have been staged as imaginatively as FREIGHT! Kudos to Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre in association with Castillo Theatre!

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/freight-the-five-incarnations-of-abel-green/feed/ 1 https://routes-mag.com/the-old-settler-at-the-billie-holiday-theatre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-old-settler-at-the-billie-holiday-theatre https://routes-mag.com/the-old-settler-at-the-billie-holiday-theatre/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:45:44 +0000 http://routes-mag.com/?p=17696   When Shauneille Perry’s screen adaptation of John Henry Redwood’s The Old Settler appeared on television in 2001, real life sisters Phylicia Rashad and Debbie

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/the-old-settler-at-the-billie-holiday-theatre/feed/ 1 https://routes-mag.com/sweat-is-kick-ass-theater/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sweat-is-kick-ass-theater https://routes-mag.com/sweat-is-kick-ass-theater/#respond Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:48:11 +0000 http://routes-mag.com/?p=17459 Introduction I have had the pleasure of attending many performances either created by, including and/ or otherwise related to people of the African Diaspora. These creative cultural expressions all point to the diversity of the “Black Experience” in America and beyond. It is essential that this diversity be acknowledged.

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/sweat-is-kick-ass-theater/feed/ 0 https://routes-mag.com/the-negro-ensemble-presents-a-soldiers-play/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-negro-ensemble-presents-a-soldiers-play https://routes-mag.com/the-negro-ensemble-presents-a-soldiers-play/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2017 06:17:45 +0000 http://routes-mag.com/?p=17490 The Negro Ensemble Company is BACK! — Like other American-African theater organizations, this iconic company has been struggling for well over a decade to provide and maintain a professional venue for Black playwrights to tell stories about people from the African diaspora in quality staged productions. Founded in 1967 by Robert Hooks, Douglass Turner Ward and Gerald S.

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/shakespeares-a-winters-tale-under-the-stars/feed/ 1 https://routes-mag.com/theater-for-the-new-citys-the-elephant-pen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=theater-for-the-new-citys-the-elephant-pen https://routes-mag.com/theater-for-the-new-citys-the-elephant-pen/#respond Sat, 16 Jul 2016 05:17:31 +0000 http://routes-mag.com/?p=15618 The Elephant Pen, let me tell you about is a bone-chilling psychological thriller! I don’t know that it chilled my bones, but it certainly kept me on

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/theater-for-the-new-citys-the-elephant-pen/feed/ 0 https://routes-mag.com/sugar-ray-at-the-new-harlem-besame-restaurant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sugar-ray-at-the-new-harlem-besame-restaurant https://routes-mag.com/sugar-ray-at-the-new-harlem-besame-restaurant/#respond Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:16:21 +0000 http://routes-mag.com/?p=9618 AUDELCO recipient Reggie Wilson was a knockout as the fabled pugilist, Sugar Ray Robinson, in the one-man show “Sugar Ray” by Laurence Holder. This New Federal Theatre’s production (Feb. 28 – April 12) was particularly apropos as a temporary addition to the menu of the New Harlem Besame Restaurant since Robinson once owned most of that west side block from 123rd to 124th Street on 7th Avenue.

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/theatre-review-for-the-last-time/feed/ 0 https://routes-mag.com/the-schoolhouse-theaters-the-effect-of-gamma-rays-on-man-in-the-moon-marigolds-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-schoolhouse-theaters-the-effect-of-gamma-rays-on-man-in-the-moon-marigolds-review https://routes-mag.com/the-schoolhouse-theaters-the-effect-of-gamma-rays-on-man-in-the-moon-marigolds-review/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:22:38 +0000 http://routes-mag.com/?p=3641  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is the 1964 play written by Paul Zindel. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971. A recent

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]]> https://routes-mag.com/the-billie-holiday-theatres-brothers-from-the-bottom-review/feed/ 0 https://routes-mag.com/harlem-stage-the-year-of-james-baldwin-tribute-stranger-on-earth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harlem-stage-the-year-of-james-baldwin-tribute-stranger-on-earth https://routes-mag.com/harlem-stage-the-year-of-james-baldwin-tribute-stranger-on-earth/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:49:03 +0000 http://routes-mag.com/?p=2425 Harlem Stage: The Year of James Baldwin Tribute   As part of a 14-month celebration of writing legend James Baldwin, Harlem Stage opened The Year

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