Phoenix Black Theatre Troupe’s 'Black Nativity' returns for 39th year

Black Theatre Troupe’s 39th annual production of Langston Hughes’ “Black Nativity” opens on Friday, Dec. 6. Written by the poet and playwright in 1961, it visually and musically subverted American societal norms and American Christian beliefs about the birth of Jesus Christ, which mostly portrayed him and his semblance as Caucasian…



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