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For Immediate Release June 2, 2021 Press Contact: Nina Ward   Project1VOICE presents Us Supporting Us A Juneteenth celebration of the history of Black Artistic Endeavor     Program begins June 19 with 200th anniversary remembrance of NYC’s African Grove Theatre     (June 1, 2021) - Project1VOICE , an organization dedicated to supporting theatre and the performing arts by people of African descent, will commemorate its 10th anniversary with Us Supporting Us , a free three-day online event for Juneteenth. Us Supporting Us begins June 19, 2021 with a 200th anniversary celebration of the African Grove Theatre, the first Black theatre company in the United States. The theatre was founded by William Alexander Brown, a free Black man from the West Indies, and   was in operation at several locations in Lower Manhattan and Greenwich Village from 1821-1826, until it mysteriously burned down. In addition to an in-depth conversation about the legacy of the African

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, June 7, 2021 Contact: Chris Boneau / Michelle Farabaugh Follow MTC on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook Follow BBB on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook Tony Award Winner Phylicia Rashad Returns to Broadway in Skeleton Crew Broadway Premiere by Tony Award Nominee Dominique Morisseau Directed by Tony Award Winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson Performances Begin Tuesday, December 21, 2021 Opening Wednesday, January 12, 202 2 Manhattan Theatre Club Also Announces Performance Dates for Remainder of 2021-2022 Season On Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and Off-Broadway at New York City Center – Stage I MTC Subscriptions and Patron Memberships Available Now   Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce that Tony Award® winner and five-time Emmy Award nominee Phylicia Rashad will return to Broadway this winter in Manhattan Theatre Club ’s Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew , written by T