Salamishah Tillet

The actress Kerry Washington and the director Whitney White want to honor Goldberg’s theatrical legacy by revisiting her acclaimed portraits of humanity.

Aleshea Harris won acclaim for her drama “Is God Is.” When it came time for a film adaptation, she saw cinematic possibilities far beyond her play.

The actors connected quickly as they prepared to make their Broadway debuts in a new revival of David Auburn’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play.

Chase Infiniti and Lucy Halliday explore the fierce potential and peril of adolescent girls in Hulu’s follow-up to “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

“Spunk,” a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997.

Onscreen and behind the scenes, the movie is about the pursuit of liberation, not just for its characters, but also for filmmaking itself.

The band from Trinidad and Tobago will headline the Unity Jazz Festival this week, bringing “a sense of joy” and its genre-blending sound.

Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.

In “Hamilton,” no moment captures the actor’s emotional expansiveness, artistic breadth and vocal depth better than this number.

Across 35 years and five films, Spike Lee and Denzel Washington redefined Black male filmmaking and cemented an indestructible personal bond.