Ticket-revenue figures are still being crunched and won’t be available for several days. And it’ll be a couple of weeks before officials at Visit Winston-Salem can say how much money the 2009 National Black Theatre Festival pumped into the local economy. But Gerry Patton sounded upbeat.

It’s not every day that Claire and Janae’s mother comes to visit.

It’s impossible to tell the whole story of the blues in a little over two hours. But the Crossroads Theatre Company of New Brunswick, N.J., gives us a substantial crash course in It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues.

The acclaimed play The Sty of the Blind Pig by Phillip Hayes Dean was cited by Time magazine as one of the 10 best plays of 1971.

Black hair is expression—whether in Jheri curls, cornrows or blown-out Afros. At least that’s the case in the show Nappy Journeys.

Perri Gaffney and Stephanie Berry take us through amazing life stories that are by turns humorous and harrowing in a pair of dazzling one-woman performances.

Halley’s Comet got an earful last night, and thankfully, we got to eavesdrop on the many wise, moving, curmudgeonly and funny things that a virtuoso actor told it.

Sandra Miles and Olivia Swinton are volunteers for the National Black Theatre Festival.

They were working the hospitality desk in the lobby of the Winston-Salem Marriott on Sunday when actress Barbara Montgomery arrived with one shoe wrapped in a plastic bag.

The play Ascension is a dark tale about the evils of slavery. But it is also a story of love overcoming the chains that bind it.

Teddy Pendergrass did more than sing R&B as well as anyone. He seduced every woman in the audience with renditions of such tunes as “Close the Door” and “Turn Off the Lights.”