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 Sunday, March 13th at 3pm, there will be a special benefit performance and cocktail reception, honoring Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad, who is an NEC alum and current star of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. Purchase Tickets Online! |
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For more information about this special benefit performance call 212.561.6712.
By a Black Hand
NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY, INC.
&
CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY
"BY A BLACK HAND"
Written by Arthur Reese & Darryl Goodman
Directed By: Prof. Arthur Reese
"By A Black Hand" is a rap musical that revolves around a young
woman who is troubled about her lack of knowledge concerning the
contributions of her ancestors. With the help of her grandfather and a
rap group called the "Mystical Muses", she is soon able to discover her
true history and her true future.
@
The 45th Street Theatre
354 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
Between 8tth & 9th Avenues
Performance Dates:
Monday, March 7, 2005 @ 10:00am, 1:00pm
Tuesday, March 8, 2005 @ 10:00am, 1:00pm
Wednesday, March 9, 2005 @ 10:00am, 1:00pm
Thursday, March 10, 2005 @ 10:00am, 1:00pm
Friday, March 11, 2005 @ 10:00am, 1:00pm
ONE WEEK ONLY!!
Colored People's Time
NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY, INC.
Presents
NEC's Travelling Theatre Production of
"COLORED PEOPLE'S TIME"
Written by: Leslie Lee
Directed by: Charles Weldon
Available Performance Dates:
Mondays, February 7, 14, 28, 2005
Tuesdays, February 1, 8, 15, 2005
Wednesdays, February 2, 9, 16, 2005
Thursdays, February 3, 10, 17, 2005
Fridays, February 4, 11, 18, 2005
BOOK YOUR SCHOOL NOW IN OBSERVANCE OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!
Contact The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. (NEC) office:
303 West 42nd Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-582-5860/Fax: 212-582-9639
Colored People's Time
December 6-21, 2004
presented by Traveling Theatre
Written by Leslie Lee
Directed by Charles Weldon
Colored People's Time is a history of Black America. It is a chronological look, in riveting vignettes, at the lives of ordinary African Americans at various moments of social change in American history, beginning with the clandestine slave churches, and including, among others, the Great Migration north, Marcus Garvey, World War II, to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a century later. It is a play about the evolution of a once downtrodden, hesitant people to those of unity and strength --- a people whose time had finally come.
Join us on:
Mondays, December 6, 13, & 20, 2004
Tuesdays, December 7, 14, & 21, 2004
Wednesdays, December 8 & 15, 2004
Thursdays, December 9 & 16, 2004
Saturday, December 18, 2004
This is a Limited Engagement, reserve your school groups by September 15th, 2004! To confirm your school reservations, call:
Negro Ensemble Company, Inc.
303 West 42nd Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-582-5860/ Fax: 212-582-9639
A Night of New Voices
ON THE JOB TRAINING PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP PRESENTS:
A NIGHT OF NEW VOICES
Conducted by Corta Trotter
Featuring works by:
| UniQue Webster "Faces of a Woman" |
Corta Trotter "Ashley" |
| Rawle Williams "Check to Check" |
Adrian Washington "Saint Trustus" |
Friday August 27th, 2004 @ 7:00pm
Suggested Donation: $5.00
AT THE TIMES SQUARE ART CENTER
300 West 43rd Street, Suite 3E
New York, NY 10036
(Between 8th & 9th Avenues)
Reservations must be made in advance: 212-582-5860
Potluck Creativity
Feb 27th, and 28th 7:30pm
Come, join the NEC for two nights of "potluck creativity". The Negro Ensemble Company will close out Black History Month by presenting two enjoyable evenings of open mic performance. Do you sing, dance, act or know someone who does? Then tell them about NEC's "potluck creativity" night. It is our way of honoring live perfomance and African-American's rich Story Telling tradition. Even if you aren't interested in performing, come on out and enjoy the show. Sign-up for performers will begin at 6:30pm on Friday and Saturday. Showtime is 7:30pm. Space is limited, so get there early!Hands
Written by Barnabus Crosby directed by O L Duke
Hands is a bus stop tale where two men share a smoke, a dance, and a past too common to be ignored.
@ The Pantheon Theater, 303 W. 42nd St. and 8th Ave. 2nd fl. NYC, 10036
This is a School Production & Family Heritage Theatre February 3-6 Showtimes are 11am and 1pm. Children: $6.00 NEC Family Theater Performance: Saturday, February 21 @3pm Pantheon Theatre |
Time Capsule
February 3 - 27 2004
From tea and taxes to fry cakes on a freedom train; Jamal and Nikki once again find themselves on another magical journey back in time! You may remember our brave duo from their exciting visit to the 1800's where they encountered William Henry Brown, founder of the African Grove Theater. This time Nikki and Jamal revisit the mid-nineteenth century and wind up in the home of great abolitionist Frederick Douglass, as he is preparing for an important speech in Nantucket. It is here, in the Douglass home, that Nikki hopes Jamal will learn some important lessons on freedom and respect. Nikki gets more than she bargains for when everyone there believes she is Harriet Tubman, a fugitive slave leading other escaped slaves to freedom in the north. Come, hop on this "train" and experience what life was like in 1856 for Blacks in America and what happens to Nikki and Jamal with slave catchers hot on their heels! It's a journey you won't soon forget.Limited tickets available. For reservations call 212.582.5860.
Tales of Life, Love, and Loss
from Gus Edward's Monologues on Black Life
...presented by NEC Training Unit I.
Don't miss it! It's a show you won't forget!
Thursday February 19th
Friday February 20th
Saturday February 21st
Showtime: 8pm
Cost: $20
@ The Pantheon Theater, 303 W. 42nd St. and 8th Ave, 2nd fl., NYC 10036
no advanced reservations available.
New Voices Project
A reading of new works by new playwrights.
February 2nd - 14th 2004
Coordinated by Jammie Patton [phone: 212-252-2008] [email: newvoices@necinc.org]
The Pantheon Theater
303 W. 42nd St. at 8th Ave 2nd Fl.
No advanced ticket sales or reservations available. Box office opens at 6:30. First come, first served.
WEEK 1
FEB. 2nd 3rd & 4th @7:30pm
Mon. Feb 2nd
Hurricane Jonah by J.Kyle Manzay $FREE
In a small town on the coast of South Carolina there is a lingering curse as
old as the first slave ship to approach its shores. All of the men in this
particular family are blessed to be great musicians. They are also cursed to
die by the age of twenty one and no one can escape it. Hurricane Jonah is the
story of one mother's journey to protect her son from this curse, while an
anthropologist fights to unveil the mysteries locked inside.
Tues. Feb 3rd
Heavy Rotation by Jammie Patton $FREE
Three women, one song, nine relationships, one journey. Though they are all
cut from the same cloth, these women all live very different lives. See what
happens when their worlds spin dangerously out of control and the truths they
must confront in the mist of all the mess. It's a relationship eye opener. "You
never know what's going on in your own backyard."
Weds. Feb 4th
My So Called Masculinity by Yusef Miller $FREE
A boy's coming of age in a sweetly dysfunctional family.
FEB. 5th, 6th, & 7th. @7:30pm
Workshop Production $7
Four Women....a one woman show
Written, Adapted
and Performed by: Robyne Landiss Walker, Directed by: Yusef Miller
Four women, four points of view, equals one exciting, thought-provoking evening
of theatre! Meet EBONY, The Ph.D and our guide for the evening...then there's
PAULINA some call her 'The Sell-out', but you can be the judge of that! Next,
enters Sista ISIS, 'The Dirty Back Packer' who must have been a member of the
Black Panther party in a former life! And we can't forget KIA the girl from
the hood whose got your back! Think you know these women?...Hear how They tell
Their stories when they enter the 'center of analysis'.
WEEK 2
FEB. 12th, 13th, & 14th. @7:30pm
Workshop Production $10
Funny Brown Bone directed by OL Duke. A writing
collaboration by Janis McDavid, Jammie Patton and Ricardo Costa, this is a
workshop production for the 12th, 13th, and 14th of February. As it stands
this is a full-length play based on a series of comedic and socially relevant
vignettes. This comedic piece, reminiscent of "Impassioned Embraces" and
a hodgepodge of other hilarious classics, has a contemporary twist and sub
textual commentary that will have you questioning your own belief systems as
well as the source of your own laughter.
Da Beat Trap
A One-Woman Play
Dec. 1st, 5th, 6th 2003
Presented by:
The Shakespeare N. Haarlem Theatre Festival
Adunde Theatre Company
& Negro Ensemble Company
written & performed by France-Luce Benson
directed by Gregor Manns
The Producer's Club
358 W 44th St, NYC
Tickets: $20
Reservations:
(212) 352-3102
Performance Times:
Dec. 1st & 5th @8p
Dec. 6th @4p
Info: (212) 726-1370
For additional information
re: the Shakespeare N. Haarlem Theatre Festival,
visit www.theatremania.com.
New Voices IV
December 2nd & 3rd at 4 PM and December 7th at 6PM
Negro Ensemble Company's Final New Voices for 2003 will be presented as part of the Shakespeare N. Haarlem Theater Festival.
Dates:
December 2nd & 3rd at 4 PM and December 7th at 6 PM
Location:
The Producer's Club
358 W 44th Street
Tickets are $20 (this includes admission to see the one acts "Spoils of War" by Alim Akbar and a new play by Platonos and Collard Greens author David Lamb). The plays featured under New Voices include The Truth by Romeo Ballentine and Completion by Sean Phillips.
For additional information re: the Shakespeare N. Haarlem Theatre Festival,
visit www.theatremania.com.
