IN-PERSON

The Black Theater Preview returns live to the Schomburg to celebrate the resilience of Black Theater artists.

The evening will feature performances, panels, and one-on-one conversations with theater makers from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and beyond including Tony and Emmy Award-winner LaChanze, two-time Tony winner Irene Gandy, and Obie and Drama Desk Award winner and Tony nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson. A schedule will be forthcoming.

Black Theater Preview is presented in association with Walk Tall Girl Productions, AUDELCO, Inc. and Project1Voice.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

ACCESSIBLILITY

ASL interpretation will be provided upon availability of interpreters. Live captioning is available for streaming programs. Additional accessibility requests can be made by calling 212-340-0951 or 212-340-0909, or e-mail accessibility@nypl.org.

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Header image: 2020, William Farrington for the Schomburg Center

PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER

IN-PERSON | By registering for this event, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending an in-person program at The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold The New York Public Library, its Trustees, officers, agent and employees liable for any illness or injury. If you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 or suspect you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive, please stay home.

VIRTUAL | This Program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link, you will leave NYPL’s website and enter a website not operated by NYPL. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party website or service that you visit or use, including those third parties with whom you interact with through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links, please see the section of NYPL’s Privacy Policy describing “Third-Party Library Services Providers” at https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/privacy-policy. During this Program, you will be using third-party platforms such as livestream.com/schomburgcenter, for the purpose of communication. This service may collect some personally identifying information about you, such as name, username, email address, & password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy.

FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED Events are free and open to all, but due to space constraints registration is requested.  Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. After the event starts all registered seats are released regardless of registration, so we recommend that you arrive early.

GUESTS Please note that holding seats in the Langston Hughes Auditorium is strictly prohibited and there is no food or drinks allowed anywhere in the Schomburg Center.

AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.

PRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at leahdrayton@nypl.org.