Where Black Storytelling Culture Liberation Takes Center Stage
Residency Programs: SOUL Series L.A.B.
NBT’s Residency Programs are career-launching for Black artists as they provide them with a creative home, an experiential foundation, and the necessary tools to support and help them foster a robust, sustainable career. Every year NBT’s selection committee chooses a new cohort of playwrights, directors, and producers to tell their stories and develop uniquely diverse narratives around Black life.
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Digital Stage: NBT 24/7
NBT@Home brings the impact of present-pulse theater directly from our home to yours. Explore digital theater experiences, virtual panels, film, conversation series, and more content commissioned, created, and curated by NBT’s residents, alumni, and contributing artists.
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We must begin building cultural centers where we can enjoy being free, open, and Black.
Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, Founder, CEO Emerita
National Black Theatre is becoming a transformational producer on Broadway.
Ashley M. Thomas, Broadway New
NBT is medicine. It's a medicine that has helped me sit up straighter as a Black woman and be bold in my art-making.
Ebony Noelle Golden, NBT Artist
The greater purpose of NBT’s new building—official address: 2031 National Black Theatre Way—is to serve as both a home for and a kind of monument to Teer’s, and her own, sweeping vision for the organization.
Marley Marius, Vogue
After five decades NBT continues to contribute to culture in myriad ways. In the past year alone they co-produced Purlie Victorious, [Pray] and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham, which was nominated for five Tony awards. All three shows are New York Times Critic’s Picks.
Jeryl Brunner, Forbes
In order for us to exist as a people in the future, we have to be able to see it to be it.
Sade Lythcott, CEO
Our Home
Located in the heart of Harlem’s 125th Street Special Arts District, NBT is embarking on a historic capital redevelopment project that will transform our current property into a cultural wonder, merging art with cutting-edge and indigenous technologies.