"Shuffle Along" had been designed to appeal to both Black and white audiences — but likely they saw such things through different lenses, Gaines said. "Black audiences knew that what Miller ...

“Shuffle Along” was the first hit of its kind, a unique “crossover” project that brought White and Black audiences together (though still physically separated) in the Broadway theate ...

Donation Options Search Search Search “Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way,” is a deep dive into the 1921 musical “Shuffle Along” and its creators.

Unlike “Get Out,” the approach to racial comedy in “Shuffle ... is a sequence called “Black Acting School” in which Townsend’s version of himself, imagines white actors instructing ...

a vituperative critic who generally championed black artists but didn’t love this show, is a high point. Essentially a lecture-demonstration with spectacular production values, Shuffle Along ...

"Shuffle Along" had been designed to appeal to both Black and white audiences — but likely they saw such things through different lenses, Gaines said. "Black audiences knew that what Miller ...

"Shuffle Along" had been designed to appeal to both Black and white audiences — but likely they saw such things through different lenses, Gaines said. "Black audiences knew that what Miller and Lyles ...

views "Shuffle Along" through the widest of historical lenses. The rise of Harlem as a Black cultural capital — through a series of dodgy real estate maneuvers — enters into it. So does World ...