Black Theatre Group Celebrates 50th Anniversary Season

PHOENIX – The Black Theatre Troupe’s 2020-2021 season Telling Our Stories will mark the 50th year the company has celebrated the Black experience.

Since their 1970 debut production of Lonnie Elder’s nationally acclaimed drama of social and political consciousness, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, Black Theatre Troupe has gone on to produce powerful works with an emphasis on African American culture and ideology. In addition to being featured at several of the National Black Theatre Festival celebrations in North Carolina, Black Theatre Troupe was honored with that national organization’s 2013 Longevity Award and recognized as one of the longest continuously operating Black theatre companies in the United States. The company also thrust Phoenix’s arts communities into the national spotlight by being recognized as one of the few companies in the country that have completed the performance of August Wilson’s entire 10 play Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicles Black life in America for each decade of the 20th Century.