Much like The Roots, who they shared the stage with at The Roots Picnic in June, have been doing lately, Antibalas will play a NYC residency. Theirs will take place at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn ...

FELA! The Musical will conclude a world tour with a string of performances in Oakland in June. Tickets are now on sale for June 4 and June 6-9 shows at the Paramount Theatre. The show helps to keep ...

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“The musical “Memphis” emerged as the early leader in the Tony Awards on Sunday night, while the film actress Scarlett Johansson won the first acting award: best featured actress in a play for her ...

Alex Gibney turns his cameras on the legend of Feli Kuti and the Jay-Z/Will Smith-produced Broadway musical, "Fela!" By Chris O'Falt Finding Fela Sundance Film Still - H 2014 The Broadway smash told ...

Before “Fela!” arrived onstage at Olney Theatre Center last week, more than a decade had passed since the Tony-winning Afrobeat musical — about the art and activism of the late Nigerian singer Fela ...

Anyone who’s an aficionado of Broadway will know the iconic part that Toulouse-Lautrec brought to the Bohemian scene in 19th-century Paris. For the uninitiated, the French nobleman was an embodiment ...

How do you take the music of a Nigerian protest singer unknown to most Americans -- whose songs are densely percussive jams punctuated by lyrics sung in a mash-up of English and African tribal ...

Nollywood actress and filmmaker Genevieve Nnaji is among the cast of an audio adaptation of Broadway musical ‘FELA!’ premiering on the Clubhouse app this weekend. The production highlights the ...

According to Tejumola Olaniyan in Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics, Fela once said of "My Lady Frustration" that it was "the first African tune" he had written, which is a strange ...

Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the pioneer of Afrobeat, built an international legacy long before The Recording Academy acknowledged it ...