Britton Smith is a 2019 Tony Award Winner; founder of The Broadway Advocacy Coalition; appears in the Broadway productions, Shuffle Along and After Midnight; and off-Broadway, in The Fortress of Solitude, Wild Goose Dreams (The Public), The Wild Party, and Cotton Club Parade (NYC Encores!). Smith is also a 2017 AEA Mountain Top Award Recipient.

Organized by Frank Leon Roberts, Assistant Professor of Theater.

The Revolution Will Be Dramatized: Black Theater Now is a public conversation series organized by the Theater Program at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. A part of the Lang undergraduate course of the same name, the mission of the series is to introduce students to leading black theater artists, professionals, and practitioners whose work traverses the boundaries of art, politics, and social justice. What is the relationship between black theater and black activism? Moreover, what does it mean to think of black theater as activism? Inspired by the writer Toni Cade Bambara’s famous claim that “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible” this public facing conversation series invites audiences to think about the ways in which theater---and the arts more broadly--- “matter” to the work of social justice.

All events are open to the public via webinar format and require registration. Zoom link will be sent in advance of the event.

Presented by the Theater Program within The Arts department at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.

To learn more and register for this event, visit The New School events website