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NEW YORK-- The historic Apollo Theater in Harlem has just announced its new CEO and president. Essence Corporation President and CEO Michelle Ebanks has been tapped to run the largest African ...
The Apollo Stages at the Victoria nods to Harlem's rich history and marks "a new era" in the theater’s 90-year history Harlem’s The Apollo Theater continued celebrating Black history and their ...
NEW YORK – This year's Kennedy Center honorees were unveiled Thursday morning, and they include Harlem's historic Apollo Theater. It's the first institution to ever be honored by the Kennedy Center.
For nearly a century, The Apollo has stood as a beacon of performing arts and culture in Harlem. Now, for the first time in its 90-year history, the renowned theater will undergo a full-scale ...
Teyana Taylor will be celebrated in her hometown as the first-ever recipient of The Apollo Theater's inaugural Innovator Award. The Harlem native will return home on June 4 to be honored at the ...
The R&B legend is playing the historic Apollo Theater on Saturday, June 29 Scott Huver is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been writing about entertainment, celebrity, pop culture, crime ...
For as long as many can remember, the Apollo Theater in Harlem holds a special place in the minds and hearts of Black America. Whether it was being used as a meetup place for organizations like ...
The Apollo Theater, the iconic Harlem venue at 253 West 125th Street by Frederick Douglass Boulevard, has announced plans to greatly expand its footprint in the area. Rendering: Flyleaf Creative ...
Last month, Drake announced a concert at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater. The only way to get tickets for the show at the 1,500-cap venue was through Drake’s SiriusXM station, Sound 42 ...
When a 9-year-old Leslie Uggams made her debut at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater in 1952, she instantly won over the notoriously tough crowd as the “extra added attraction” on a bill with ...
Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater will undergo its first transformative renovation in the venue’s 108-year-old history along with a leadership shake-up, the theater announced on Tuesday.
We dive into the historic Apollo Theater - a venue unlike any space in New York - to explore how this center of Black entertainment in the tri-state and its performers have defined our culture.