In the St. Louis Black Repertory Company’s production of Carlyle Brown’s play The African Company Presents Richard III, William Shakespeare lingers like one of his own ghosts. He stands as […]

“Sweat” puts the role of the working-class individual under a microscope and asks us the question: What would you do if you had to fight to survive?

While it would seem that watching a production via Zoom would take away some of that so-called “theatre magic,” that wasn’t the case with “Front Porch Society.”

“Spell #7” is a choreopoem written by Ntozake Shange and performed for the first time in 1979.

On Jan. 8, The Black Rep opened the second show of its 43rd season, “Two Trains Running” by August Wilson. The play takes a snapshot of Pittsburgh’s The Hill district in 1969 via the lives of ordinary people and transports audiences to that time.

Sept. 4 marked the opening of the Black Rep’s 43rd season with “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,” a musical revue by Micki Grant. With very little dialogue between songs, “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” provides a social commentary that is still relevant in 2019 despite a publication date in the early 1970.