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National Black Theater Plans Next Act in a New Harlem High-Rise
The pathbreaking company plans to replace its Harlem home with a 21-story building with apartments, retail and a new theater.
National Black Theater is working with developers to replace its longtime home. This rendering shows a planned 21-story building that will include a mix of housing, retail and a gleaming new theater.Credit.Luxigon, via National Black Theater
June 4, 2021Updated 3:49 p.m. ET
It was more than 50 years ago that Barbara Ann Teer rented space in a building at 125th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem that would serve as the home of a nascent organization called National Black Theater.
Russian Collector Dasha Zhukova Is Launching a Real-Estate Firm to Put Exhibition Spaces and Artist Studios Into High Rises
New developments in Manhattan and Philadelphia are underway now.
Dasha Zhukova. Courtesy of Ray.
Russian collector Dasha Zhukova, who founded Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, has launched a new real-estate venture with the aim of bringing residential apartments, art studios, and exhibition spaces together under one roof.
Ray, as Zhukova’s new business is called, already has two major developments underway, in Manhattan and Philadelphia. Its website describes them as “vertical villages” and notes that prices will be “accessible.”
Douglas Turner Ward: A Lens on âQuestions That the Country Wasnât Askingâ
Samuel L. Jackson, David Alan Grier, Phylicia Rashad and others remember the Negro Ensemble Company founder.
Douglas Turner Ward waiting to go onstage after the opening night performance of “A Soldier’s Play” in January 2020. Kenny Leon, who led the production, called Ward’s presence and smile up there that night “the greatest experience for me as an American director.”Credit.Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
By the time he founded the Negro Ensemble Company in 1967 with Robert Hooks and Gerald Krone, he had already been on Broadway in the original 1959 cast of âA Raisin in the Sun,â playing a tiny role while understudying Sidney Poitier.