ByBlacks Rating: BBB The Front Room is a Jamaican play written by Aston Cooke and produced by Marcia Brown.

After 5 years off the theatre stage pursuing a career in film and television performance, I came to the InspiraTO Festival as an actor in the Blue Show installation of Last Night at the Paradise, a ten minute show written by Elektra and directed by Annemieke Wade.

Montreal, Quebec. Pre-opening night, mostly media invited, actors, performers, close friends and family are present.

Shakespeares’ Niggas, Beatdown, Born Ready, Pusha-Man...sound familiar? These are some of the plays written by Trinidadian born Joseph Jomo Pierre. His plays have been produced by Obsidian Theatre company, and now Jomo has co-written a piece based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, aptly titled Twisted.

ByBlacks Rating: BBB1/2 Anchored by the evocative sounds of rhythm and blues, Jasmyn Fyffe’s ‘Pulse’ commendably marries technique and entertainment.

ByBlacks Rating: BBBBB 

ByBlacks review BBBB Imagine this. Six black male poets from across North America, inside the St. Lawrence Centre in downtown Toronto, a stage decorated scarcely with a mic, mic stand, two Up From the Roots banners and DJ Manifest stage left, decked out with his Mac, two turntables and a mixer.

Bob Kills Theatre kicks off the Toronto edition of “The Motherf---er with the Hat” on November 9th.

Awarding-winning Gospel Artist Alan Charles’ hit UK comedy stage play Love, Sax and All That Jazz is coming to Toronto. 

ByBlacks Rating: BBBBB Waiting for the lights to come down in Aki Studio Theatre, I am acutely aware that I have left 2014.

The Piece of Mine Festival is the only Black Theatre Festival in Canada.