“Magic was in the air outdoors at Lincoln Centre when the Fela cast joined Femi Kuti on stage” – Steven Hall Femi Kuti and the Positive Force headlined Monday night’s Midsummer Night Swing show at ...

In this new musical, directed and choreographed by Tony® Award winner Bill T. Jones with a book by Jim Lewis, audiences are welcomed into the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat ...

It seems easiest to talk about the life of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the language of color and dance. And so it is unfurled before us, a theatrical feat titled simply “Fela!,” a dazzling display of the ...

Art Attack also talked with actress Paulette Ivory, who plays the Black Panther member who radicalized Fela. In FELA!, the story of Fela Kuti, a Nigerian musician who became a civic activist, Melanie ...

3 Review: DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET at New York City Center-Absolutely Charming Giving back is an integral part of Variations, A Dancer's Studio director and co-founder Erin Lopez's heart and soul. And so ...

The most influential African musician of the last 50 years is still little known in this country. A few years ago, Broadway tried to remedy that with the musical, “Fela!” The national touring company ...

Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland in Nigeria, Eoghan McSwiney, shares with BAYO AKINLOYE his experience in Nigeria and love for Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade’s music If you were to leave ...

Re “Feeling Unsettled at a Feel-Good Show” by Charles Isherwood [Jan. 31]: “Fela!” strikes a unique model of tension between the driven soul that devised Afro Beat and the physicality that it embodies ...