The 15th Biennial National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) is not only
the premiere festival for African-Americans but it’s the largest of its
kind in the world, with a mission that fosters artistic diversity and
excellence.
Produced by the North Carolina Black Repertory
Company, this year’s festival, which celebrated 30 years of operation
with recording-breaking attendance, took place July 31 – August 5 in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, affectionately known as the City of the
Arts.
Before the NBTF, which was founded by the late
Larry Leon Hamlin, the black theater community was isolated; no other
national or global organization represented as wide a range of
disciplines or offered as much support in the theater community.
Thanks to the NBTF, theater goers have the
opportunity to witness and patronize the full range of diverse works of
the African American diaspora in one place.
“This festival has brought in more first-time
festival goers,” says executive producer Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin, who has
helmed the organization since her husband’s death in 2007. “We have
been producing the festival since 1989, so we have it down to a science
now.”
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