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Karamu House has been serving the community for over 100 years! Today, Karamu’s mission is to produce professional theatre, provide arts education, and present programs for all people while honoring the African-American experience.
Karamu House in the Fairfax neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is the oldest producing Black Theatre in the United States opening in 1915. Many of Langston Hughes 's plays were developed and premiered at the theater.
In It Happened in Atlanta by Michael Oatman, we get to explore the different ways that “Black Love” tries to find its way in the world. Through these characters’ relationships we get to reminisce about the wild risks we took in our youth and the ways those choices ripple into our maturity.
Homecoming Community Day. Tickets: Free (Register Online) Date: July 14. Time: 2-6pm. Cashless event. Please use debit/credit card and mobile pay options. Register.
As a community-based nonprofit arts and education institution, Karamu House has maintained its historic commitment to encouraging and supporting the preservation, celebration, and evolution of African-American culture.
Karamu House, Cleveland, Ohio. 9,922 likes · 2 talking about this · 1,867 were here. Karamu House is America's oldest producing Black Theatre.
Feb 23, 2023 · Recognized as the oldest African-American performing arts institution in the United States, Karamu House has served as an incubator for some of the country’s best-known Black artists since it...
Apr 28, 2023 · The five-show lineup at the oldest Black producing theater in the United States includes the latest dramedy from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, the world premiere of a...
Karamu – a preserver of Black culture and African American history, is still putting on outstanding productions that ensure stories are told through the Black lens and perspective.
Karamu during the 1920s and 1940s was an influential forum for exploring racial themes that defied racial biases and amplified (or elevated) Black people’s perspectives. This formative period fulfilled the Jelliffes’ dream to set the stage for Karamu to remain an essential Cleveland institution.
