Ledisi is next up to tackle one of the biggest musical challenges a singer can do: perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the ...

Her green-room tasks include reeling off the ... “and influence the future conversations we have.” The Apollo Theater, designed by architect George Keister, for whom theaters were something ...

The Apollo Theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the African American narrative and its role in the ...

The Janelle Procope Theater - named after The Apollo’s former president who served for two decades in her role - is a tad smaller (only 99 seats) and serves educational programming needs with ...

The Apollo Theater hosted its annual Martin Luther King ... His murder sparked acts of arson and gunfire in her neighborhood. “And those fires frightened me as a child,” she said.

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global One of the most famous music halls in the United States, "the Apollo" started as a burlesque theater in 1914. By the 1930s, it transformed ...