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Six Degrees of Separation - The Quintessential NYC Play Returns to Broadway

Six Degrees of Separation – The Quintessential NYC Play Returns to Broadway

Once upon a time in there was an island, surrounded by the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.  It was a place where the underworld, “Regular Joes” and elite flowed past each other creating a unique aura that produced the energy for a city that never slept.  Those seeking fame and fortune came to the island to stake their claim and be seen.  Manhattan was a melting pot brimming to the top with a million…

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15 Questions With Mahogany Reynolds

15 Questions With Mahogany Reynolds

Last night Slow Bullet, My Three Loves opened at Manhattan Repertory Theater to great success, partly because of the acting ability of Ms. Mahogany Reynolds.  Mahogany is a brave, unrelenting actress who fearlessly took on the role of Rhea Davies, a deeply complex character in the middle of a breakdown.    While preparing for her for the show, Mahogany answered our 15 questions so you could get…

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15 Questions With Arthur Gregory Pugh

15 Questions With Arthur Gregory Pugh

Arthur Gregory Pugh is the trifecta.  He is an actor that has been endowed with enormous talent, professionalism and a willingness to go deep to bring the needs and emotions of the character to life.  There is a sense of awe in seeing an actor give up his body to allow the character to step in.  Arthur gives his all and personifies what Floyd “Money” Mayweather describes as the keys to success –…

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Port Cities Comes To NYC

Port Cities Comes To NYC

F.A.M.E NYC is proud to spread the word about projects like Port Cities.  It is important that art explores the past, speaks to the age we are living in and inspires us to build  a better future.

PORT CITIES is a global performance art project linking five cities along 17th century Dutch trade routes. From Perth Australia to Cape Town South Africa, from Amsterdam and New York City to…

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15 Questions With Lamar Richardson

15 Questions With Lamar Richardson

Lamar Richardson is the personification of “talented tenth.”  He’s ivy-league educated; a member of the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for Black men and an extremely talented and dedicated actor. He also has a smile that’s infectious. To me he’s a wonderful ray of light that I’ve been blessed to work with.  Like the character “Baby Boy,” Lamar brings purpose, hope and…

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Strange Fruit Redux Goes To Queens

Strange Fruit Redux Goes To Queens

Since its debut last July, Strange Fruit Redux has continued to make its mark.  Strange Fruit Redux tells the story of 25-year-old visual artist Nathan Strange, who is on the verge of becoming the latest sensation in the NYC art scene.  While working on his final painting, Nathan expresses his views about black culture and what it means to be black in the new millennium moments before a…

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Meet The Cast of Slow Bullet, My Three Loves

Meet The Cast of Slow Bullet, My Three Loves

Slow Bullet, My Three Loves tells the story of Rhea Davies, a thirty-something makeup artist.  While preparing to make her final transition, Rhea Davies is confronted by the men whom she loved the most and the relationships that shaped her world’s view.   In the middle of her breakdown she experiences a breakthrough.   Next month Slow Bullet, My Three Loves will make its world premiere at…

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Strange Fruit Redux Returns to NYC

Strange Fruit Redux Returns to NYC

In July 2015 STRANGE FRUIT REDUX exploded onto the off-off Broadway landscape making its world premiere at Manhattan Repertory Theatre‘s 10th Anniversary Event.  It returned to NYC in November 2015 participating in the Midtown International Theatre Festival.  Our founder Afrika Brown has declared that 2016 is the year of Strange Fruit!

In February STRANGE FRUIT REDUX traveled to Winston-Salem, NC…

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Flesh and Boner: What the Starz Series “Flesh and Bone” is Really About

Flesh and Boner: What the Starz Series “Flesh and Bone” is Really About

By Bethany Leger

I’m a millennial. I wasn’t born in the 50s. I realize that premarital sex, drug use, eating disorders, domestic violence, stripping, incest, and self-injury are common features of modern day society. But just because my generation created a show out of this stuff, doesn’t mean I’m on board. Oh, and did I mention the main thread that supposedly ties the whole plot together is…

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Let Us Fly

Actor/poet Bryant L. Lewis is a Native New Yorker born and bred in the Bronx. If you attended a performance of The Outing in 2014, you may remember him as the DJ in the party scene.  You may also remember him from the snippet of Strange Fruit Redux playing protagonist Nathan Strange.

Lewis is also the CEO/Founder of O-Kaos Productions, a video production company that writes, produces and films…

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STRANGE FRUIT REDUX IS NOW AT THE MIDTOWN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Come out and support F.A.M.E NYC Magazine's founder and editor! STRANGE FRUIT REDUX  is a new play…

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STRANGE FRUIT REDUX SNIPPET

STRANGE FRUIT REDUX SNIPPET

Hi FAMERS!

Check out of Snippet of Strange Fruit Redux the latest one act play by our very own Founder Afrika Brown.  #Broadwaynottoofaraway

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CUT N’ MIX: Contemporary Collage On Display At El Museo Del Barrio

Cut N’ Mix explores the work of artists experimenting with collage and collage techniques in ways that expand the gestures of cutting paper and mixing various mediums together. It takes as its point of departure some of the concepts from Dick Hebdidge’s series of essays collectively titled Cut N Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music, published in 1980. In this text, Hebdidge explored the…

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STRANGE FRUIT REDUX Premieres At MRT's 10th Anniversary Event

No one truly knows what the day holds as they prepare to step out their front door.  Burgeoning Bed-Stuy artist Nathan Strange is poised to be the next sensation of the New York City art scene, but a common trend plaguing our society may prevent him from doing that.

Written by Afrika Brown, STRANGE FRUIT REDUX is a series of poem monologues mixed with music and socio-political pop culture sound…

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Jazz Standard Beats Out Winter with Kendrick Scott Oracle With the final days of winter creeping to a close, Jazz Standard ushers in spring with sounds of Kendrick Scott Oracle. 

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Rufus Reid and His Big Band Sounds Swing at Jazz Standard

Rufus Reid and His Big Band Sounds Swing at Jazz Standard

Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project, released in 2014, is the latest offering by premiere bassist Rufus Reid, but there was nothing quiet about The Big Band Sound of Rufus Reid as they played selections from this Grammy nominated work.  Quiet Pride is an homage to the work of Black graphic artist, sculptor and activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012).  The titles of the six piece suite are…

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A Legacy Supreme, Ravi Coltrane at Jazz Standard

A Legacy Supreme, Ravi Coltrane at Jazz Standard

Few jazz artists have the legacy of Ravi Coltrane.  To say jazz is in his blood is an understatement; he is jazz royalty.  His father, John Coltrane, created the quintessential jazz opus with Love Supreme and is actually a saint.  His mother, Alice Coltrane, was a jazz pianist, composer, harpist and organist who led her own band and accompanied her husband.

Extending the legacy given to him by…

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