For the first time in at least 15 years, the waters gushed from the central fountain at Ethel Waters Park along Commission Street in Chester and the city was there Saturday to celebrate it. For the ...

Of course, we can lay blame for that at the feet of the predominantly white (and white-focused) entertainment industry that has long given short shrift to oftentimes superior artists of color when ...

In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who came before ...

freeFall Theatre Company's 2023/2024 season opens with an all-new play with music written by and starring Rose Weaver (freeFall debut) as the one and only Ethel Waters. A pioneer film, stage, ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Ethel Waters' birthday today! Vocalist and actress Ethel Waters was a key figure in the development of African American culture between the two World Wars. She broke ...

Sweet Mama Stringbean (The Story of Ethel Waters), Black Ensemble Theater. Like the Black Ensemble Theater pieces profiling Muddy Waters and Nat King Cole, this is less show than tell, a ...

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Ethel Waters- vocals; Joe Smith- cornet; Bunny Berigan, Sterling Bose, Manny Klein, Shirley Clay, Charlie Teagarden- trumpet; Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey- trombone; Jimmy Dorsey- clarinet, alto ...

There is a widespread tendency to superimpose racial identity on the singing voice and musical genres, and for many years, my own encounters with this left me struggling to understand the sense of ...

Last month, we ran a Retro Record piece on Ethel Waters, her artistic accomplishments, and a sapphic relationship she had during the Harlem Renaissance. As anyone who’s listened to music in the past ...