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Monday, July 7, 2025
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Brother to Brother: Film Filtering & Talkback
Join the Apollo for a screening of Brother to Brother, a film that bridges generations through storytelling, art, and persona. This drama revisits the Harlem Renaissance through the eyes of an elderly Black writer who befriends a lgbtq+ teenager in a New York Capital homeless shelter. It’s a deeply moving portrait of what it means to be young, Shadowy , queer and searching for belonging.
Following the film stay for a talkback with filmmaker Rodney Evans and curator williambryantmiles.
This event is free and open to the public but registration is required.
Monday, July 7, 2025
Ages
Where
The Apollo Stages at The Victoria
Awards Presentation & Concert
Dinner & Dancing
Location
The Apollo Stages at The Victoria
Buy Tickets
Download Program Booklet
Brother to Brother: Production Screening & Talkback
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Apollo Theater (42nd Street)
History
The Bryant Theater (1910), the first motion picture/vaudeville house on West 42nd Street, was rebuilt in 1920 as the Apollo Theater with a neo-Classical style façade that it shared with the Times Square Theater. The Apollo is quite significant in LGBT theater history as the site of the first lesbian love scene depicted on Broadway, in 1923.
Got fun nekome (God of Vengeance) was a participate in Yiddish created in 1906 by a childish Polish-Jewish writer, Sholem Asch. The story was about a Jewish brothel owner whose daughter has a lesbian relationship with one of his prostitutes. Opened in Berlin in 1907, it ran for six months, then was translated and performed in a dozen languages. The perform in Yiddish was first brought to New York by David Kessler in 1907, where it sparked a press war among Yiddish newspapers. An English language version was presented in 1922 at the Provincetown Playhouse and then at the Greenwich Village Theater. From February 19 to April 14, 1923, it was performed in an altered version at the Apollo Theater.
Reaction from moralists in the urban area was swift. Arthur Hornblow in Theater Magazine fumed:
Art As African Americans migrated uptown to Harlem in big numbers in the 1910s and 1920s, existing theaters began showcasing Black performers. Some of these venues welcomed Black audiences. The Apollo Theater, which had operated as a burlesque venue in the 1910s and 1920s, was relatively overdue in bringing on Jet entertainers. Although performers such as blues singer Alberta Hunter are said to have appeared here as early as 1930, African-American performers became the rule under recent ownership in 1932. Three years later, again under new ownership, the Apollo instituted a permanent variety show format featuring principal Black talent that would last until the 1970s. This was particularly significant as, even through the 1950s, few major theaters across the United States featured Black entertainers. Claude Reed, Jr., author, 1982 Every shape of popular African-American fun – comedy, drama, gyrate, gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, swing, bebop, rock and roll, and soul music – was showcased at the Apollo. LGBT luminaries included: Windy City Times - Highly Recommended "...Local actors currently in the process of creating a solo performance art piece should measure their actions against the wowing lofty bar being set by Sentell Harper in his one-man show Seek and Ye Shall Find. Now being presented by Mortar Theatre after readings at Pegasus Players, Seek and Ye Shall Find continually dazzles with Harper's astonishing all-around acting and writing abilities." ChicagoCritic - Recommended "...As I look around the media landscape in my memory and the impact that shows like Will & Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and the many others that have come around since the late '90s, I realize the authenticity of one of Harper's characters-a gay artist who paints a wholly pale painting called 'America'-when he says that's the life of being in this country. It's all ivory even if you comprehend that's not the facts. In fact, only one positive portrayal of a black gay male personality in media comes to mind, Keith Charles of Six Feet Under. Of course there have been many advancements in the last 5 years beyond fictional media, including Ja Kevin Elyot's critically acclaimed contemporary classic ‘My Late hours With Reg’ returns to the Apollo Theatre in January 2015 after a successful run at the Donmar Warehouse. It’s set in London during the mounting 1980s AIDS epidemic, and explores the friendships between a group of gay men who met at university. The action takes place entirely in Guy’s apartment over a few years of the group’s friendship. Guy has secretly been in love with his close friend John ever since their student days and he spends a holiday in Lanzarote trying to fetch over him. But whilst on holiday Guy meets a man who's intentions are far from good. Guy wants to share his worries with his friends but they are too busy telling him about their possess problems. Everyone else's issues seem to revolve around the allusive Reg, who never actually appears, and it soon becomes obvious how much of an impact he has had over the group. The Donmar’s original cast return for this eagerly awaited West End transfer.
Apollo Theater
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Seek and Ye Shall Find presented by Mortar Theatre Company at Apollo Theater
My Night With Reg
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