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That Black Theatre Podcast is a podcast about Black theatre, Black creativity and blackness in Britain, hosted by PhD student Nadine Deller and her sister Nadia Deller. Hear stories about and from the leaders of Black British theatre, from 1900 to today.A podcast from the National Theatre’s Black Plays Archive, in partnership with Central School of Speech and Drama and the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. Listen weekly on Mondays from 28 September 2020.
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Off Book: The Black Theatre Podcast

Broadway Black & Broadway Podcast Network

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Go into the world of black theatre artists on this weekly podcast with a theatre journalist, an actress, & a playwright. Drew Shade, Kim Exum, & Ngozi Anyanwu are your hosts and they will most certainly be Off Book. New episodes every Monday! Email: OffBook@BroadwayBlack.com Twitter: @OffBookPodcast | @BroadwayBlack IG: @BroadwayBlack | @OffBookPodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/broadwayblack2.0 www.BroadwayBlack.com
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Ya'll know what to do! It's time to hit your mark and go Off Book! This week the crew is tired because they've been working but they're still making it work. They get knee-deep into a conversation about New York City Center's Encores production of THE LIFE directed by Billy Porter, the world of critics and critiques, how great the musical presentat…
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Alright now! It's that time! Time to go Off Book with Drew, Kim, & Ngozi! Listen in as Kim shows how close she is to being a conservative, Ngozi talks about the new musical she's writing the book for, Drew laments about his work week, and the entire crew talks about how none of them are the 'brownstone friend.' Hot topics include Hadestown coverage…
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Hey Yall! It's time to hit your mark and go Off Book. This week we dive into A LOT! Our weeks and the shows we've seen are sorts of large in number *cough* Drew! *cough, cough*. Hot topics include James Earl Jones getting a theatre renamed in his honor, Black Theatre Night of Confederates at Signature Theatre, Emmett Till opera, the new Blair Under…
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It's time to hit your mark with the crew! This week we discuss the end of Black History Month, the casting of For Colored Girls, Kimberly Akimbo heading to Broadway, and trouble in Paradise Square, allegedly. We also get Ben Vereen to go Off Book with us. He discusses his career, how Sammy Davis Jr. took him under his wing, Andrew Lloyd Webber not …
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It’s “A Day in The Life” featuring Lillias White! Get into the brand new episode of @offbookpodcast with the #broadwayblack Icon herself! Along with Ms White discussing pretty much her entire career, your favorite hosts dive into the hottest topics from the week including feeling like real housewives, the ushering in and ushering out of Broadway sh…
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Let's go castmates! It's time to hit your mark! This week we talk about new productions and canon works, as well as discuss Wicked and Phantom history makers, Britton & The Flea, and end with a great interview with stars of the new musical "Black No More," Brandon Victor Dixon and Tariq Trotter, well-know as Black Thought from The Roots. Soundcheck…
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This week we're joined by theatre critic and What's Up Broadway co-host, Ayanna Prescod, listen in as Drew takes up most of the time with his week of events including a Broadway Sessions storytime & being mistaken for Savion Glover. Hot Topics include The Color Purple film cast and a few exclusives you'll want to hear. Also, don't miss the rundown …
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Lean. with us and rock with us as we talk about all the things of MJ: The Musical, Skeleton Crew, Drew's trip to Vegas, and... wait,.. what happens on Off Book stays on Off Book! It's time to hit your mark, the overture is starting. Go into the world of black theatre artists on this weekly podcast with a playwright, an actress, & a journalist as th…
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The. topics just keep coming! Join the crew this week as they land on every single show they've seen/plan to see, planning an Off-Book trip to London, what it means to have an addiction, award season nominations, and white fragility on display Off-Broadway! Put down the planter and join us for a fresh episode, Go into the world of black theatre art…
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Here we go yall! It's another episode filled with the latest news and thoughts on the current state of theatre. Join us as we dive into all of the closings and future re-openings, twitter's Golden Globes, Saturday Night Live w/ Ariana Debose, & more! Are you ready to hit your mark? Pull up! Go into the world of black theatre artists on this weekly …
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Welcome to 2022! We're back and ready to hit our marks. Join Drew, Ngozi, & Kim Exum as they discuss what they did for their New Year, getting a fresh start, James Monroe Iglehart's Russian roulette of shows, & Charlotte's web of understudy comments. Let's go! It's that time! Go into the world of black theatre artists on this weekly podcast with a …
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It's that time! Hit your mark and let's go Off Book! Listen in as Drew goes off on another Twitter rant, Kim talks about her For Colored Girl experience, and Ngozi lends her casting knowledge. Hot Topics touch on COVID cancellations and closings, Dreamgirls 40th Anniversary, Phantom's first, A Strange Loop's big news, and more! This opinion-heavy s…
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It's that time! & we made it two weeks in a row! Congratulate us! We'll be bringing you episodes weekly consistently this go round. This week we discuss every single movie musical you can think of. From West Side Story, to Cyrano, to The Color Purple (breaking cast news you won't hear anywhere else! 😉). We also discuss some Black theatre facts and …
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We're back! Again! lol, Listen... we all still coming through a pandemic. So, this week we discuss Annie Live, Stephen Sondheim, hanging with Lillias White & more! Also listen to Drew interview Anna Deveare Smith and Dr. Cornel West on stage at The Signature Theatre after the final performance of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Hit your mark with us! …
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Have you hit your mark? It's that time. Listen in as Drew, Ngozi, & Kim do their best to catch up with theatre news and announcements, share their perspectives on the latest scandals, and reveal their opinions on the winners, performances, and snubs of The 74th Annual Tony Awards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Sponsored by REALMEN Productions, in this special edition of Off Book: The Black Theatre Podcast your host, Drew Shade, sits down with leading men, Jon Michael Hill & Namir Smallwood of PASS OVER by Antoinette Nwandu. They talk about their careers, their time developing this piece, and what they hope you take away from it Learn more about your ad c…
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And we’re back… Again! This time we’re on a new network, The Broadway Podcast Network! Get into it! Drew, Kim, & Ngozi go LIVE and this time it’s in Times Square! Hit your mark, you don’t want to miss all the love, updates, Tony Awards Talk, and special interview with Broadway newcomer, Matt Manuel! Manuel is currently reopening Broadway as David R…
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Welp, we really hit our mark this week. So much so this episode almost got thrown into obscurity, but here it is. This week we discuss the current state of Clubhouse musicals, grant money given to We See You, WAT, the theatre industry movement on the backs of Black bodies, & so much more. Please proceed with caution; it gets real! Tune in LIVE on a…
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It's that time! Time to hit your mark with the new crew! Join Kim, Drew, & Ngozi as they hit on need to know information! This week is all about how to get an agent or manager, honoring the life of Cicely Tyson, and how the stage play resonates in our lives! I Said What I Said has it's first guest actor and the listen letter touches on team buildin…
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Drop-in and get Off Book with Kim, Drew, & Ngozi! It's that time! This episode was recorded live on January 24th, 2021. This week we talk about the Inauguration poet Amanda Gorman, The White Excellence of the Bridgeton TikTok Musical, Regina King's film interpretation of the play 'One Night in Miami,' & should Bi-racial actors take on roles meant f…
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It's that time yall! Time to hit your mark and join the new crew! This episode was recorded live on January 10th, 2021, just a few days after the insurrection, so you know where our heads are at. Listen in as we talk about Broadway Republicans, Broadway actors moving to television, what will happen once theatre comes back, and a special interview w…
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It's the first episode of the New Year! Recorded Live on Jan 3rd, 2021! Tune in as the new crew talks about how Kim came to realize she used to be a b*tch, codeswitching vs. presentation, Clubhouse musicals, and the auditions therein, and a self-tape listener letter! Also, our guest Crystal Monee Hall comes thru & makes a Beautiful Noise! Hit your …
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Get ready to hit your mark! It’s that time! Off Book: The Black Theatre Podcast is now LIVE! Every Sunday at 6 pm EST on youtube, Twitter, Facebook, & IG! This is the episode from last week as we're off for the holidays this week! If you haven't gotten the chance, you can go and watch this episode on our Youtube channel! Listen in as we talk about …
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In the final episode of Series 1, we have a very special guest, the exceptional theatre director Ola Ince. We talk about her past and upcoming work, the future of Black theatre and what she wants to see change in the British theatre industry. Ola Ince is a director and dramaturg, who is an Associate Director at the Royal Court. She has directed man…
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This week we look at the last decade of Black British theatre and ask: have things really changed for Black theatre practitioners? We focus on two different plays: Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night, which is the first play on record by a Black British woman to be transferred to London’s West End, and Jasmine Lee-Jones’ Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenn…
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It's that time! Listen in as best you can to this episode! Off Book is now LIVE! Every Sunday at 6 pm EST. That means you can watch it as it happens on youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram every week. DISCLAIMER: Now because we're doing something new, we're still working out the kinds. This week's sound is not up to our regular standards but t…
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This week we have a really special guest, Mojisola Adebayo. We discuss ‘Afri-Queer Theatre’, Black queer stories in theatre, climate change and colonisation. Mojisola discusses their play Moj of the Antarctic, which was performed at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in 2006 and Wind/Rush Generations. Mojisola Adebayo is a writer, playwright, poet, perf…
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It's a brand new episode of Off Book and a brand new crew! Meet the new co-hosts, Broadway star Kim Exum(The Book of Mormon) & award-winning playwright Ngozi Anyanwu (The Homecoming Queen, Good Greif). Dive right in with us as we discuss what's currently happening in the state of theatre and the lack thereof including a breakdown of #FleeTheFlea wi…
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Your favorite theatre friends Donja, Drew, and Princess Amber Iman get together one last time to do what they do best! Talk, laugh, and love! This episode aired live on November 16th! You can watch the corresponding video on Broadway Black's Youtube channel! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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This week we're continuing our discussion of the 2000s. We talk about how theatre can address the 'state of the nation', through the work of the brilliant playwright, Roy Williams. We were lucky enough to have an interview with Roy, who brilliantly discusses his plays 'Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads', 'Death of England' and 'Death of England: Del…
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This week we discuss the question of whether there was a ‘renaissance’ in Black theatre during the 2000s and the work of debbie tucker green, with the prominent academic, Professor Lynette Goddard. We talk about the unprecedented mainstream presence of several Black playwrights in Britain during the 2000s, with specific focus on debbie tucker green…
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This week we have a really exciting episode: an interview and discussion dedicated to the brilliant and prominent playwright and academic, Winsome Pinnock. Winsome is one of the best-known playwrights working in Britain today. We were lucky enough to speak to her about what it means to be a Black playwright, the history of her work in theatre, how …
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This week, we discuss the position of Black women playwrights in the 1980s and 1990s. We talk to Professor Lynette Goddard (Royal Holloway University) about the politics of representation and Black lesbian and queer playwrights, including Jackie Kay and Valerie Mason-John. We talk about Jackie Kay’s Chiaroscuro, which looks at sisterhood and the pl…
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This week we are looking at the 1980s, a time when there was a ‘boom’ in Black theatre production in Britain. We discuss the political and social changes that occurred in 1980s Britain, a decade of Thatcher’s Tory government, recession, and institutional racism. We look at Michael Abbensetts’ In the Mood, and Winsome Pinnock’s A Hero’s Welcome. Bot…
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This week we are looking at the 1970s, a time of resistance and rebellion. We talk about the work of Mustapha Matura and Alfred Fagon amidst the realities of police brutality, anti-racist politics and Black Power in Britain and the USA. Mustapha Matura’s ‘Welcome Home Jacko’ and Alfred Fagon’s ‘The Death of a Black Man’ discuss Black politics, dise…
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This week we are looking at the tumultuous 1960s, a time of civil unrest, civil rights, anti-colonial struggle, and international conflict. We talk about the work of Barry Reckord and Wole Soyinka amidst the political, social and cultural contexts of Britain, the USA and Nigeria during the 1960s. Wole Soyinka’s ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ and Barry Re…
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This week we are delving into a seminal point in Black British theatre, the 1950s. We look at the historical backdrop of the post-war period, mass immigration, and the Windrush Generation. Two important playwrights who were part of that generation were Errol John and Barry Reckord. Their plays ‘Moon on a Rainbow Shawl’ and ‘Flesh to a Tiger’, look …
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This week we are looking at the 1930s and the first black woman playwright in the Black Plays Archive, the legendary Una Marson, and how she flourished in 1930s Britain. A trailblazer in every sense, Una Marson was a Jamaican poet, playwright, writer, activist. She was also the first black woman to be hired by the BBC. We interview the brilliant ac…
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In our first episode of That Black Theatre Podcast we talk about the wonderful Black Plays Archive, the focal point of our journey into black theatre history in Britain. We chat to a leading academic and previous manager of the Black Plays Archive, Natasha Bonnelame. We ask Natasha what the Black Plays Archive is, and why it’s important to tell a p…
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Welcome to That Black Theatre Podcast! Hosted by PhD student Nadine Deller and her sister Nadia Deller, we’re here to chat all things past, present and future about Black theatre and creativity. The first series launches on Monday 28 September 2020 with twelve episodes taking you through different decades of Black British theatre-making. We’ll be s…
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Hit your mark! It's a brand new episode and this week listen in as Eddie, York, & Ianne sit down with the marvelous Saycon Sengbloh to talk about her career spanning over 20 years and more! Also, hear them touch on the musical from Black Thought, the Broadway Inspirational Voices Gala, and the passing of dancer Danny Tidwell. It's a good reflective…
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Hey Hey, Yall! It's the first week with a few of our new co-hosts York Walker, Kim Exum, & Ramaj Jamar. They are joined by playwright C.A. Johnson (All The Natalie Portmans) to discuss her journey and new play happening right now at MCC, Jeremy O. Harris' new HBO deal, an all-white Prince of Egpyt(?), and a sort of intense listener letter. It's tha…
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Listen in as Drew sits with Kim Exum, York Walker, & Ramaj Jamar to discuss theatre fashions, the difference between the fashion design and costume design, and Drew's big announcement. You'll also enjoy the 2nd hour that features our in-depth interview with playwright Katori Hall as she talks about her journey to her newest show The Hot Wing King a…
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Y'all know what time it is! Time to hit your mark and go Off Book! Listen in as Drew sits down with Ari Groover(Head Over Heels, Tina), Ianne Fields Stewart (Pose FX), and Eddie Mawere (One in Two). They convene in the studio and discuss everything from Phylicia Rashad in A Fall from Grace, a little Blue uptown, the stigma around HIV, and so much m…
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It's a brand new episode! We know you've been waiting! Listen in as Drew sits down with two Off Book newbies, costume designer Ramaj Jamar and actor/playwright York Walker. The 3 of them sit down and talk about what's new in their lives, Broadway Sessions, what they thought about the Oscars, and so much more! Places have been called and its time to…
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It's a new season! Off Book is back and ready to hit its mark! Just to remind you of all the goodness that we've experienced over the last few years we've compiled clips from our favorite and most talked about moments on the show. Get into this 'Best Of' episode & check back tomorrow for a brand new episode as we'll be changing some things around. …
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It's the end of an era some would say or the beginning of something new. Listen in as the original crew hits their mark for the last time with Chris, the engineer. They also discuss Cythina & Harriet, The Drifters Girl, and how to get back into the swing of things after being away. This is an episode you don't want to miss. It's that time! Go into …
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It's that time again! This week Drew is joined by actor Eric R. Williams, artist Keyon Monte, & producer/actor Michael Oloyede. Listen in as they go off book on topics from theatre etiquette, trauma porn, new experiences, & 'one gotta go!' Its a jammed pack episode of news, laughs, and opinions. Hit your mark! Let's go! Go into the world of black t…
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This week Donja & Amber are joined by the ever so vibrant Ianne Fields Stewart. They all hit their mark and talk about oiling up your soul, a little Aretha, + a little 'One in Two' discount code tucked in there for you. Get into it! Go into the world of black theatre artists on this weekly podcast with a playwright, an actress, & a journalist as th…
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