Special post-event press release - [New York, NY- May 7, 2018 ] – On Saturday, May 5th 2018, Take Wing And Soar Productions (TWASInc), an award winning, Harlem-based, professional Theater Arts Corporation held its Fifteenth Anniversary Gala Celebration, the TAKE WING AND SOAR SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE AWARDS, at Columbia University’s Lerner Hall Roone Arledge Auditorium. The elegant afternoon featured esteemed hosts, talented classical actor/singers and the […]
IMPACT Repertory's Jamal Joseph Receives AEA's 2017 Paul Robeson Citation Award JAMAL JOSEPH Executive Artistic director/co-founder of IMPACT REPERTORY THEATRE has been named the 2017 recipient of the Paul Robeson CITATION AWARD by Actors' Equity Foundation and Actors' Equity Association. Joseph will receive his reward at the Association's Eastern Regional Board Meeting on […]
WAITING FOR THE DAWN Feeling the excitement and anxiety of his first produced play, Cliff Russell, a young aspiring playwright, is on a creative "high." His Uncle John, a world renown director, plans to direct a stage reading and a production. He wants to cast two long time friends (Phillip and Suzanne) in the lead […]
James Baldwin’s bracingly relevant writings, which inspired the potent “I Am Not Your Negro,” also resonate deeply in “Chapter & Verse,” Jamal Joseph’s tough / tender portrait of an ex-con attempting to find redemption in modern-day transitional Harlem. Having served eight years in prison for “being stupid,” reformed gang leader S. Lance Ingram (the film’s […]
THE BOMB SHELTER, is a venue for today's YOUNG ADULT Poets to build a New Harlem Renaissance. A monthly retreat from the fallout of everyday life and forum to express our experiences, thoughts, and ideas in Poetry, Song, and Spoken Word arts. Much like a bomb shelter is an escape and shield from war, attacks, […]
New Heritage Theatre Group, the oldest Black non-profit theater company in New York City, originated in 1964 under the name New Heritage Repertory Theatre by the late Roger Furman, a revered playwright, director, actor and lecturer, who began his career in the 1940s with the American Negro Theatre in Harlem. Its mission, to preserve and sustain […]
