PRESS ROOM

Vote 2024: Inside Freedom Advances' "Rise Up & Fight" Campaign (November 2, 2024)

Podcast Interview with Nolan Williams, Jr. (October 31, 2024)

Election Day… in the DC Area (October 29, 2024)

NEWorks Productions’ ‘Freedom Advances’ Campaign Uses Art to Rally Voters for 2024 U.S. Election (October 25, 2024)

Video: Christopher Jackson, John Riddle & More Join 'Freedom Advances' Campaign (October 21, 2024)

NEWorks is Using Creative Arts to Encourage Voters through the ‘Freedom Advances’ Campaign (October 19, 2024)

NEWorks Productions is Using Creative Arts to Encourage Voters through the 'Freedom Advances' Campaign! (October 18, 2024)

STREET TALK: Democracy Remix (October 15, 2024)

Nolan Williams, Jr. discusses FREEDOM ADVANCES campaign (October 14, 2024) 

FREEDOM ADVANCES Initiative Interview w/ Nolan Williams, Jr. (September 25, 2024)

Composer Nolan Williams Jr's new civic anthem is a call to vote (September 25, 2024)

Jonathan McCrory on 'The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout,' a safe space for healing from social unrest (May 9, 2024)

 The Kennedy Center and the National Black Theatre to Present A COLLECTIVE SONIC RING SHOUT (April 18, 2024) 

Local, Federal Leaders Highlight Democracy at Emancipation Day Luncheon (April 17, 2024) 

Kennedy Center to Celebrate MLK, Jr.'s Legacy with Headliners (January 11, 2024)

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Georgetown University present the Let Freedom Ring Celebration (December 12, 2023) 

July 19, 2022

Nolan Williams, Jr. Presents First-Ever Grace Awards During Kennedy Center Colloquium Celebrating African American Foodways

May 24, 2022

'An African American Requiem' turns national grief into powerful music

April 7, 2022

Get a First Look at New Musical Grace Making Its World Premiere at Ford's Theatre

March 23, 2022

"Grace" How Sweet the Sound at Ford's Theatre

February 3, 2022

New musical ‘Grace’ at Ford’s to celebrate African American food and family

January 27, 2022

Playwright Nikkole Salter Joins Nolan Williams, Jr. as Co-Book Writer for Grace 

Saturday, February 15, 2020 

Review: World Stages: The Clemency of Titus

"The performances were uniformly excellent and passionate... This was a gorgeous cast." 

Friday, February 14, 2020

Havana Lyceum Orchestra presents busy, revisionist production of Mozart’s “Clemenza di Tito”

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

A Civil Rights Journey with 'Stirring the Waters Across America': Stories Told Through Song, Dance and Historical Readings

"...it's difficult to see what more needs to be done to perfect "Stirring the Waters..."

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

'Stirring the Waters Across America' at The REACH is a powerful musical exploration of resistance to racism

"Electrifying. Awakening. ...To call it anything less would be just plain wrong."

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Spectacular performance at Mother Bethel carries Leonard Bernstein's big idea into the age of Black

"...for one afternoon in Philadelphia, the world seemed healed."

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

 Yannick Nézet-Séguin makes his Mann Center debut with a good vibe and Beethoven’s Ninth

"...a triumph."

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Philly astronaut Bluford gets his props at the Mann - and a soaring orchestral number in his honor

"...a lovely new commission."