Messy White Gays, a brutal new satire from the mind of Drew Droege, will begin performances off-Broadway this fall. Joining Droege in the all-star cast will be Tony Award nominee James Cusati-Moyer (Slave Play)…

The complete cast of Bess Wohl’s em>Liberation, will reprise their roles when the production moves to Broadway this fall. Directed by Whitney White, the limited 14-week engagement begins previews at the Ja…

“Spirit of the People.” All photos on this blog entry by Maria Baranova. The show: Well, actually quite a few shows on my recent visit to the…

“So…once more… tell me about this Ghost.” That’s how the legendary story begins. But ghosts are tricky things. Especially in a world of madness, murder, and mayhem. A rich, entitled Prince goes on a…

EXTENDED RUN through JUNE 29 only! Tickets and more at https://www.nytw.org/show/lights-out-nat-king-cole/ *** *** *** On December 17th, 1957, it was LIGHTS OUT on "The Nat ‘King’ Cole Show.” Despite b…

“So…once more… tell me about this Ghost.” That’s how the legendary story begins. But ghosts are tricky things. Especially in a world of madness, murder, and mayhem. A rich, entitled Prince goes on a …

This will not be your father’s “Hamlet” — or even your dead-king father’s “Hamlet” — when writer-director Robert O’Hara’s reinterpretation of the Shakespeare perennial opens at the Mark Tape…

"He ran his leg of the race so that we can now run ours." GET TICKETS: https://www.nytw.org/show/lights-out-nat-king-cole/ *** *** *** On December 17th, 1957, it was LIGHTS OUT on "The Nat ‘King’ Cole Sho…

There are lots of marquee-names in Shit. Meet. Fan., the naughtily-titled comedy that is currently running at MCC Theater. But the show’s true star may be its set, a duplex apartment that scenic designer Clin…

"Oh, the games people play, at least in stage plays like WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, and now, SHIT. MEET. FAN." (Deadline) SHIT. MEET. FAN., the "viciously entertaining" (The New Yor…

scenic design CLINT RAMOS lighting designer ALEX JAINCHILL sound designer PALMER HEFFERAN prop supervisor JOSHUA LARRINAGA-YOCOM production photos JULIETA CERVANTES --- Here’s the game… Phones Out. Face Up…

Here’s the game… Phones Out. Face Up. Volume High. Every text, every email, and every call must be shared aloud. That’s what a group of long-time friends gather to play on the night of the eclipse. With…

Now extended by popular demand thru DEC 15! SHIT. MEET. FAN. has audiences excited and laughing out loud. Get tix now for extension performances. GET TIX: https://mcc.theater/shitmeetfan -- Here’s the game�…

Performances have been added to the previously sold-out SHIT. MEET. FAN. thru DEC 1. Written and directed by Robert O'Hara, this World Premiere comedy features a star-studded cast you don't want to miss! Get ti…

@sohoplace, LondonThe final part of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ trilogy is a bold, brash reflection on racism and working-class identity but the tone is too screamy for the tension to build Mixed race relati…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Watch as he chats with 2020 Tony nominee (for Slave Play) Joaquina Kalukango, who stars in Regina King and Kemp Powers' One Night in Miami. The film is available to stream on Pri…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Starring André De Shields (Hadestown, the Wiz) and Ato Blankson-Wood (Cabaret, Hamlet, Slave Play), the podcast is directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin (Lempicka, Hadestow…

At the MacGregor Plantation the Old South is alive and well. The heat in the air, the cotton fields and the power of the whip. Yet nothing is quite as it appears… or maybe it is. The iconic, controversial, g…

Critics slammed the idea of “restricting audiences on the basis of race,” but at a recent performance, Black spectators praised producers for creating a safe space.

Robert O'Hara directs the West End premiere of Jeremy O. Harris' play.

Noël Coward; Donmar Warehouse; Almeida, LondonJeremy O Harris’s gloves-off Broadway hit is overladen yet thought-provoking; sound design speaks loudest in a wordy Detroit story; and a last-minute lead shines…

Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, and  directed by Robert O’Hara, has arrived in London! Let's see what the London critics are saying about the play...

The Broadway production has transferred to London's Noël Coward Theatre with Kit Harington and Olivia Washington leading the cast.

Noël Coward theatre, LondonKit Harington and Olivia Washington star in a charged, often comical drama about the legacy of historical racial violence in three couples’ sexual dynamics What happens in the bedr…

Therapy sessions, dildos, Rihanna, and an exposing performance from Kit Harington... ‘Slave Play’ has finally arrived – loudly – in London, and it’s a sharp, intelligent, multi-layered satire

Jeremy O Harris’s play scooped a record 12 Tony nominations back in 2021 – but not before its interrogation of race and sexuality inspired walkouts, petitions, and death threats against members of its cast.…

The playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” wears its intellectual references on its sleeve.

Plays take center stage in London this July after a musicals-heavy June, with a host of heavy-hitting American titles leading the charge. A Broadway phenomenon, Slave Play, crosses the Atlantic, this time boast…

The Broadway production has transferred to London's Noël Coward Theatre with Kit Harington and Olivia Washington leading the cast.

Our 2023/24 season of musicals brought you world premieres like THE CONNECTOR and iconic performances from artists such as Jinkx Monsoon! Enjoy a recap of some of the memorable moments and get a peek at what yo…

The award-winning playwright talks about his provocative Slave Play, which earned 12 Tony nominations. A new HBO documentary chronicles the making of the production. Originally broadcast June 2023.

The Tony Award-nominated author is at the helm of “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.”

Directed by playwright Jeremy O. Harris, the film follows Harris' journey writing and workshopping the 12-time Tony nominated play.

Jeremy O. Harris, playwright of the critically acclaimed “Slave Play,” recently appeared on The Daily Show, where he chatted with Jordan Klepper about making his directorial debut with the new HBO documenta…

Jeremy O. Harris’ film about his Broadway play “Slave Play” begins with a young Black woman in an NYU sweatshirt looking straight up at the ceiling and screaming with great violence. It’s alarming, it�…

With the London opening of his incendiary work set to be among the theatre events of the year, the dramatist, along with the show’s director and stars Kit Harington and Olivia Washington, talks about the furo…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The best of Broadway gathered at the Golden Theatre last night, October 6, to celebrate the arrival of Slave Play, the acclaimed new play by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O'…

The trailer for the HBO Original documentary Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play, directed by Jeremy O. Harris, has just been released. It will debut Thursday, June 20 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and will be availa…

Playwright Jeremy O. Harris directs the film which chronicles a workshop of his Tony Award-nominated drama.

Directed by playwright Jeremy O. Harris, the film follows Harris' journey writing and workshopping the 12-time Tony nominated play.

Jeremy O. Harris' play begins its West End transfer at the Noël Coward Theatre June 29.

The writer of 'Slave Play' will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.

In an out-of-the-box hire to revive one of the nation’s preeminent summer theaters, the playwright, producer and actor Jeremy O. Harris has been tapped to program the Williamstown Theatre Festival, a person f…

A new documentary about a workshop of Jeremy O. Harris' provocative play will be premiering this summer at the Tribeca Festival in New York. The film, titled Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play, is described as a…

Bathhouse.pptx,  “a mess” of a play about gay bathhouses that is “a symptom of loneliness and longing” (in the words of its playwright Jesús I. Valles), won the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, chosen f…

Starring André De Shields (Hadestown, the Wiz) and Ato Blankson-Wood (Cabaret, Hamlet, Slave Play), the podcast is directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin (Lempicka, Hadestown), Zhailon Levingston (Tina: …

An invitation-only industry presentation of You Hateful Things, a new play by Will Arbery directed by Simon Stone, will be held this week in New York, with a cast including Christian Slater, Amandla Stenberg…

Most of our Broadway favorites have careers beyond the stage; others come to Broadway from TV and/or film. In any case, if we look around enough, they seem to be everywhere. Broadway Games: Where Haven't We Se…

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is upset that two performances of the playwright's show will be set aside for Black audiences.

No one is banned from these shows – and for Slave Play’s run on the West End, they take up only two nights out of almost 100 Downing Street made a surprise announcement last week. No, not the one about our …

Broadway League Bungles Hinton Battle Light Dimming, British PM Criticizes ‘Slave Play,’ Behind the Scenes of ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Box Office Event “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Frida…

Special “Black Out” performances of Jeremy O. Harris’ stage production Slave Play were well-received by the Broadway community in 2019 when producers of the controversial, acclaimed and emotionally comple…

A London production of the U.S. play Slave Play, written by actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris (Zola, Euphoria, Gossip Girl), is making political waves after the U.K. prime minister criticized plans to off…

The U.K. Prime Minister's Office had a negative reaction to the previously announced 'Black Out' nights at the upcoming West End production of Slave Play.

A row has erupted over ‘Slave Play’s’ Black Out nights initiative, which are specifically aimed at an ‘all-black-identifying audience’

Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson says it would be ‘concerning and divisive’ to restrict audiences based on race at Noël Coward Downing Street has condemned a London theatre’s decision to stage two performanc…

Sandra Oh to Return to New York Stage in ‘The Welkin,’ Netflix to Produce ‘The Patriots’ on Broadway, Kit Harington in ‘Slave Play’ “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast…

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington has been cast in the U.K. premiere of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris. The production—which, as previously reported, Harris announced on Instagram—will have a limited run …

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington will return to the London stage in the upcoming production of Jeremy O. Harris’ acclaimed and controversial Slave Play. Despite the star casting, Slave Play playwright Jerem…

Critically acclaimed Slave Play will have its UK premiere this year.

Exclusive: Jeremy O Harris says Game of Thrones star will not ‘make it the Jon Snow Experience’ The writer of Slave Play, the controversial Broadway production about race and sexuality that caused protests …

Slave Play, the provocative work from playwright Jeremy O. Harris, is headed to London's West End in a production led by Game of Thrones star Kit Harington and Olivia Washington with Fisayo Akinade and Aaron H…

The Broadway play will now cross the pond, with a cast led by Game of Thrones' Kit Harington and Olivia Washington.

Playwright Jeremy O. Harris announced via Instagram that his 2020 Tony-nominated play Slave Play will open in London's West End. No dates, venue or casting has been announced, but the social media post, feat…

Slave Play may be headed to London in the near future! Learn more about how you can catch the play here!

Watch NEXT at the Kennedy Center: Cynthia Erivo & Friends, A New Year's Eve Celebration at https://www.pbs.org/show/next-kennedy-center/ Cynthia Erivo, enchanting star of the stage and screen, performs “I Lo…

Watch NEXT at the Kennedy Center: Cynthia Erivo & Friends, A New Year's Eve Celebration at https://www.pbs.org/show/next-kennedy-center/ Tony Award winners Cynthia Erivo and Ben Platt fill the stage with joy a…

Roll up, roll up! Initial casting is set for Water for Elephants on Broadway. The new musical will star Grant Gustin in his Broadway debut, Isabelle McCalla, Gregg Edelman, Paul Alexander Nolan, Stan Brown, J…

Ato Blankson-Wood, a Tony-nominated actor known for Slave Play, has been cast as Cliff for the upcoming revival of Cabaret. The previously announced production will begin performances on April 1, 2024 and ope…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood (Slave Play) has been cast as “Cliff” in the buzzy, upcoming Broadway production of Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne as “The Emcee” and Gayle Rankin as “…

Long before Slave Play, decades before Ain’t No Mo, there was Purlie Victorious, the Ossie Davis comedy masterwork that, like those descendant plays, fused broad comedy, satirical minstrelsy, racial satire an…

Best known as the Tony Award-nominated scribe of “Slave Play,” Harris most recently produced “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.”

The award-winning playwright helped bring Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window to Broadway. He also talks about his provocative Slave Play, which earned 12 Tony nominations.

Over the weekend I caught a couple news articles out of the UK about a production which is carving out one performance in their run for black audiences only. The show, Tambo & Bones, which runs June 16 to J…

The Slave Play playwright will lead a one-month retreat in Tuscany.

Gate theatre, LondonInventive direction and a spectacular cast make the London transfer of Robert O’Hara’s kaleidoscopic off-Broadway play a spiralling, high-energy triumph Robert O’Hara is a tease. In th…

Ato Blankson-Wood will star in Hamlet this summer. The Public Theater's free Shakespeare in the Park production will begin previews at the Delacorte Theater on June 8 and open on June 28. Tony winner Kenny Leo…

The 61st season of Free Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park will feature the classic drama HAMLET, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon and featuring Tony Award nominee Ato Blan…

Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood (Slave Play) will take on the title role of Hamlet this summer, starring in the Public Theater’s extended, nine-week Free Shakespeare in the Park production at The Delacor…

The Slave Play playwright and Emmy-winning screenwriter are the latest high-profile names to enter the world of producing on Broadway.