Greetings! To all WBAI listeners, we are “Giving Thanks” for your support at the WBAI “Fight Back” meeting. Pacifica interim executive director John Vernillen has been fired, but those coup members who enabled him are still around. WBAI needs you. Listen and visit: www.WBAI.org.
THEATER
“Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” written by Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th St, Manhattan. The ‘Queen of Rock n Roll,’ in performances now; Tony Award and Olivier Award nominee Adrienne Warren (“Shuffle Along”) is cast in the title role, Nkeki Obi-Melekwe as Tina at select performances Daniel J. Watts as Ike Turner. For information, visit: www.ticketmaster.com/lunt-fontanne-theatre-tickets-new-york/venue/24583
“Twas The Night Before Kwanzaa” A holiday comedy that finds Santa Claus diverted to Africa to hear about Kwanzaa. Sat. Nov. 30 from 2 p.m.- 6 p.m., Sun. Dec. 1 at 4 p.m., Fri. Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. and Sat. Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. and 6p.m. Sun. Dec. 8 at 4 p.m., Thurs. Dec.12 at 7 p.m. Doors open one hour before showtime. For information, call: 718-723-1800 or visit: www.blackspectrum.net.
“The Best Things In Life” playwright David Lamb; producer Jamillah Lamb (creators of “Platanos and Collard Greens”) are back with the hilarious, romantic, redemptive story of music’s biggest star who’s sold out to have it all, until an unwanted visit from the ancestors upends his world. Sat., Dec.7 at 8 p.m. Improv Asylum, 307 West 26th Street, Manhattan. For more information, call: 212-352-3101 or visit: www.thebestlaughs.com.
“Fires in the Mirror” is a re-imagining—with new performers and collaborators—of Anna Deavere Smith’s Drama Desk award winning groundbreaking response to a civil outbreak. The work reveals the underlying racial tensions in the nestled Brooklyn community of Crown Heights during the summer of 1991. This landmark play launches Anna Deavere Smith’s Residency 1 at Signature Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. Through Dec.15. Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd St., Manhattan. For more information, call: 212-244-7529 or visit www.info.comSignature+Theatre.
“Slave Play” comes to Broadway. Written by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by two-time NAACP and OBIE Award winner Robert O’Hara. The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation—nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems ripping apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in the 21st-century. For more information, visit: www.slaveplaybroadway.com
“Ain’t Too Proud” celebrates The Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, written by three-time Obie Award winner Dominique Morisseau. Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street, Manhattan. For information, call: 844-379-0370 or visit: www.secureboxoffice.com
MUSIC
Harlem Blues Project, Tues, Dec. 10, 8:30-10 p.m., Iridium, 1650 Broadway, Manhattan. For information, visit ticketmaster.com.
Kem and Joe, Thurs., Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. Performing Arts Center, Prudential Hall, 1 Center Street, Newark, NJ 07102. For information, call:1-888-GO-NJPAC
Hot 97’s “Hot For The Holidays” Wed., Dec 18, 8 p.m., Kings Theatre, 1027 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. For information, visit: ticketmaster.com.
“Friday Night Disco Fever” celebrating “A Night at Studio 54,” Fri,. Dec. 27 at 7 p.m. The Wellmont Theater, 5 Seymour Street, Montclair, New Jersey 07042. For information visit: ticketmaster.com
Eric Benet, Dec. 28, 7:30 p.m., Sony Hall, 235 W 46th Street, Manhattan. For information visit: ticketmaster.com
FILMTV
“21 Bridges” starring Chadwick Boseman as NYC detective Andre Davis, who shuts down all the bridges in Manhattan to track down a pair of cop killers. But like the “Fugitive,” this manhunt thriller has some surprises. Check Theatre listings.
“Harriet.” The biographical film about slave-turned-abolitionist-soldier, Harriet Tubman. Stars Cynthia Erivo as Tubman, with Leslie Odom Jr, Joe Alwyn and Janelle Monáe with music by Terence Blanchard. Story by Gregory Allen Howard. In theaters now.
“Godfather of Harlem.” Forrest Whitaker as notorious drug dealergangster Bumpy Johnson, takes on the mob over the Harlem drug trade, while giving back to the community and renewing a relationship with an old friend named Malcolm. Available on Epix.
“Greenleaf”, “Queen Sugar”, “Super Soul Sunday,” “The Haves and The Have Nots” “Iyanla, Fix My Life” and more on OWN network. Visit: www.oprah.com
“Hitsville: The Making of Motown.” Featuring Motown co-founders-legends, Berry Gordy and Smoky Robinson with Motown greats and vintage footage. Available on Showtime.
Listen to Imhotep Gary Byrd’s “Express Yourself,” Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on WBLS-FM and simulcast over WLIB 1190AM. The full show can also be heard on HD radio at WBLS-HD2 and at WBLS.com, WLIB.com. IGB’s “Radio GBE” is heard Fridays 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Archived online at www.wbai.org. For bookings or to reach us about your GBEvent or for comments, email co-editor Nyerere, nyerere1@aol.com, find us at Imhotep Gary Byrd on Facebook or call 212-592-3279.
