The Billie Holiday Theatre is launching its Lifelong Learning Series w/ our first class entitled Tough Love Tuesdays!Tough Love Tuesday is a weekly program designed to STRENGTHEN your MIND, BODY & SOUL through group fitness with Alwayz Fit 4 Lyfe on all platforms. We all know consistency is tough and finding time for self-care is […]
Billie Holiday Theatre Presents: Our Story To TellOur Open Casket to the World is a 200-page hardcover publication capturing the making of the ‘Black Lives Matter' Mural in Bed-Stuy. Featuring over 300 photos and commentary exploring a community’s resolve to find healing and justice amid a nation in crisis. 7PM: An in depth conversation of the beauty […]
Panel Discussion immediately after the screening with Segun Shabaka, Basir Mchawi and Mal.The Billie brings back The Sun Rises in The East and chronicles the birth, rise, and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The East embodied Black self-determination, building dozens of […]
Excerpts from 6 historical Black plays that have crossed The Billie's stage over the past 5 decades.We are excited to reopen our doors for the first time since the start of the pandemic this spring 2023 with an unprecedented Mainstage world premiere: So Live A Concert Reading of Moments of Black Genius in the American […]
Garment of Destiny, our annual dance concert celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Join us for Garment of Destiny, our annual event celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Witness the new class of our Pre- Professional Training Program this February. These tenacious young artists are looking forward to sharing their gifts […]