Legendary tapper, choreographer, director and actor Savion Glover of Newark presents the world premiere of his innovative new work Lady5@Savion Glover's BaRoQUe' BLaK TaP Cafe to the Joyce Theater from July 2 to July 7. Glover came into WBGO to speak with News Director Doug Doyle about the show that transforms the Joyce Theater into a cafe using dance as a means to illustrate the evolution of thought and self-identity. "The barouque aspect of the cafe is the test or the challenge at what we see.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising that many say was the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement in not only New York City but around the globe. Author and gay rights activist Scott G. Brown was there. Brown recalls the night of June 28th 1969 and the NYPD raid that sparked the movement.

Two highly acclaimed actors get together on Broadway. Audra McDonald plays "Frankie". Michael Shannon plays "Johnny". They’re falling in love — or something like love in the revival of a modern classic. Theater critic Michael Bourne reviews the revival of Terrence McNally's Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

Jazz Power Initiative is celebrating 15 years of achievement in uptown Manhattan and nationally with its jazz performance, education and professional development programs. Three generations of jazz educators came into the WBGO studious to talk about the anniversary. NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron, JPI Artistic Director and Co-Founder Eli Yamin and JPI Program Coordinator and Teaching Artist Brian Fender all sat down with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle to talk about the importance of the

The Cost of Home campaign is first of sorts, combining the efforts of every Habitat for Humanity across the country into one initiative. Barbara Dunn with Paterson Habitat says it’s a five-year effort that aims to help millions of Americans. “Reduce the cost of their housing,” she said. “Right now, 1 in 6 Americans spend more than 50 percent of their income and our goal is to focus on those 19 million Americans living is such unaffordable circumstances.” The national initiative looks to increase

Creative New Jersey recently held its Call to Collaboration forum at NJIT in Newark. A two day event that brings together local organizations and community groups to address issues affecting their communities while challenging them to brainstorm solutions.

Rolling Thunder Revue’s subtitle is A Bob Dylan Story , told by Scorsese with a little help from his friends at Netflix, which helped Scorsese and collaborators find restore to vibrancy footage of Dylan’s 1975 tour of small venues in mostly small towns across America beginning at Plymouth Rock. They’ve added new testimonials, a number of which are pure fictional flights of fancy. “I don’t remember anything about Rolling Thunder. It happened so long ago, I wasn’t even born,” Dylan says as a

The short film ‘Legacy Lives On’ is a collaborative project hosted by Urban One , a leading voice representing Black culture through news, media, and entertainment and Prudential Financial, an expert in global investment and insurance services. The documentary balances the perspectives of renowned actors like Laz Alonso; while also showcasing the stories of three key woman leaders addressing “financial wellness” in their communities to reclaim the narrative of Black women in America. Alonso is a

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the multistate agency that oversees the Delaware River watershed to ban fracking and related activities in the area. The activists hope it would codify a de facto moratorium that has been in place for nearly a decade that prohibits fracking, the treatment and disposal of fracking waste, and the transfer of water for fracking operations elsewhere. “The public has spoken over and over again that we do not want fracking within the Delaware River

Elmwood Park, New Jersey resident Teresa St. Frances would rather be called a "spiritual messenger" than a psychic medium. The author of the 2016 book What Happens The Day After?: Messages From Adolescent Suicides says she knew she had a special gift at the age of four. St. Frances sat down recently with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle to talk about her career, connecting with the "other side" and the teenage suicide epidemic. St. Frances says throughout her more than 35-year professional career