How did the artists of the Harlem Renaissance respond to the historic events that shaped their time? And how are contemporary creatives dealing with the issues of the present moment in their own work? These questions lie at the heart of the Apollo commission of the New Black Fest, which has engaged 18 contemporary playwrights to explore these themes in 10-minute plays.
Over the course of three staged readings, each playwright will premiere their new work, dramatically performed by an exciting cast of actors and readers. Participating playwrights include James Ijames, Eric Micha Holmes, Dahlak Brathwaite, Donja Love, Dennis A. Allen II, Christina Anderson, and Mfoniso Udofia. This event will be taking place on the Apollo’s Soundstage.
Please note that each reading features different playwrights.
Part of Apollo New Works, the Apollo’s first major commissioning initiative launched in 2020.
Leadership support for the Apollo New Works initiative is provided by the Ford Foundation. The New Black Fest is funded by the HBO Fund for Theater, The Black Seed, and is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Commissioning support for The New Black Fest is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Please contact the Apollo Box office at [email protected] or (212) 531-5305 if any other special assistance is required for your visit.
Date: April 23 at 3 PM
Robyne Walker-Murphy explores the impact and transformative power of Black artists of the past and today with contemporary artists, Zora Howard (award winning playwright and screenwriter) and Carl Hancock Rux (multidisciplinary artist and Associate Director of Harlem Stage).
For the safety of our audiences and staff, all ticketholders and attendees of this event must provide proof of vaccination in order to enter the theater. In addition, all attendees are required to wear face coverings while inside the theater. Click here for more information about our COVID safety policies.
Directed by Cezar Williams It’s Complicated by Michael Bradford
Untitled by Dennis A. Allen II
Cliff & Clara & Her Baby by Lauren Whitehead
Directed by Goldie Patrick Cousins by France-luce Benson
Rampjaar by James Ijames
Dayz by Dahlak Brathwaite
Michael Bradford is currently Vice Provost for Faculty, Staff and Student Development at the University of Connecticut. Prior to this position he was the Department Head of Drama and Artistic Director of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. As a playwright, his work has been produced at various theatres, to include The American Place Theatre, the LARK Play Developmental Center, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the HERE Art Center and regionally at eta Creative Arts Foundation, Inc., Chicago, Il., the Playhouse on Park, Hartford, CT., ACT, Seattle, WA. internationally at Teatro Rita Montaner, Havana, Cuba and Brixton East Theatre, London, UK. His workshops and readings include The Negro Ensemble Company, Urban Stages and Liminal Studios (London, UK). His residencies and fellowships include the Manhattan Theatre Club Fellowship, Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellowship, and various residencies with the LARK Developmental Theatre, NY. He is a 2010 Fulbright Research Scholar (OLIVES AND BLOOD, Granada, Spain) and his work is published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., Smith and Krause and Dr. Cicero Press.
Dennis A. Allen II is from Hempstead, New York. His play The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi won the 35th annual Off Off Broadway Samuel French festival. Dennis’ full length play, When We Wake Up Dead and his monologue contribution to The New Black Fest’s Hands Up : 7 Playwrights 7- Testaments (How I Feel) are also published through Samuel French (Concord Theatricals). He is a recipient of Atlantic Theater Company’s inaugural Launch Commission; National Black Theatre’s, I Am Soul Playwright Residency and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group. He has developed and produced plays with; The Lark Play Development Center, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Fire This Time Festival, The Naked Expedition Project, 48 Hours in Harlem, TBTB and The New Black Fest.. He is faculty member of the Theatre Departments at Montclair State University, Laguardia Community College, Primary Stages ESPA and serves as a Co-Vice Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (region 1) National Playwriting Program. Dennis received his MFA from Brooklyn College Playwriting program and and will be taking over as its Program Coordinator this spring 2022.
Lauren A. Whitehead is a writer, performer and dramaturg. In 2018, Whitehead adapted “Between the World and Me,” for staging at the Apollo Theater and for the TV adaptation on HBO (2020). In her most recent performance, she originated the lead role of “Un/Sung” in the 2017 opera “We Shall Not Be Moved” (Dir. Bill T. Jones). Whitehead has been a Sundance Theater Lab Fellow and a Sundance Talent Forum Fellow. She has worked as a dramaturg at Hedgebrook and at The Denver Center for Performing Arts. Currently, she is a Professor of Drama at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Named “Someone to Watch” by American Theatre magazine, France-Luce Benson is the 2021 winner of the Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, and was just awarded a new play commission from the Atlantic Theater Company, supported by NYSCA’s Individual Artist Award. Additional honors include Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Fellow, Zoetrope Grand Prize for her screenplay Caroline’s Wedding; Miranda Family Foundation grant recipient for her play Detained, Alfred P. Sloan New Play Commission for The Devil’s Salt, Princess Grace Award runner up for Boat People, Dramatists Guild Fellow 2016-17, Sam French OOB Festival Winner, NNPN Award for Risen from the Dough, and her play Talking Peace topped the list of most impactful plays in the Together L.A.: ATLA 2020 Virtual Theatre Festival. She has been a playwright in residence at The Camargo Foundation in France, Sacatar Institute in Brazil, Djerassi Foundation, and Space on Ryder Farm. Her plays have been produced and/or developed in by The Ensemble Studio Theatre where she is a company member, The Billy Holiday Theatre, The New Black Fest, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Crossroads Theatre Company, City Theatre of Miami, Juggernaut Theatre, and Loyola Marymount University, among others. Tigress of San Domingue, the second in her trilogy about the Haitian Revolution, was featured at the Atlantic Theatre Company Afro-Caribbean Mixfest 2021, was named a finalist of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2020, and was selected for The Playwrights Center’s Afro Atlantic Playwrights Festival in 2019. Her work has also been staged internationally at the Afropea Festival in Marseilles, France and Global Voices Theatre in London. She’s been published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, and Routledge Press. Her play Detained will have its world premiere at The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles in February 2022. She is currently a television staff writer for Viacom/CBS and 101 Studios.
JAMES IJAMES is a playwright, director and educator. He has appeared regionally in productions at The Arden Theatre Company, The Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Mauckingbird Theatre Company, and People’s Light and Theatre.
James’ plays have been produced by Flashpoint Theater Company, Orbiter 3, Theatre Horizon, Wilma Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), The National Black Theatre (NYC), Steppenwolf Theatre, Definition Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago IL) Shotgun Players (Berkeley, CA) and have received development with PlayPenn New Play Conference, The Lark, Playwright’s Horizon, Clubbed Thumb, Villanova Theater, Wilma Theater, Azuka Theatre and Victory Garden.
James is the 2011 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Artist recipient, and he has two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play for Superior Donuts and Angels in America and two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Direction of a Play for The Brothers Size with Simpatico Theatre Company and Gem of the Ocean with Arden Theatre. James is a 2015 Pew Fellow for Playwriting, the 2015 winner of the Terrance McNally New Play Award for WHITE, the 2015 Kesselring Honorable Mention Prize winner for ….Miz Martha, a 2017 recipient of the Whiting Award, a 2019 Kesselring Prize for Kill Move Paradise and a 2020 Steinberg Prize.
James was a founding member of Orbiter 3, Philadelphia’s first playwright producing collective. He received a B.A. in Drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and a M.F.A. in Acting from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. James an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a co-artistic of the Wilma Theater. He resides in South Philadelphia.
Dahlak Brathwaite is an award-winning playwright, composer, and performer. His work has been presented at The Smithsonian, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, REDCAT, MCA Chicago, Ars Nova, The Public Theater, SXSW, by Creative Time, and on HBO’s last two seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Dahlak has been commissioned as a playwright by TheatreWorks and the Apollo Theater. He made his debut performance at the Apollo in the reading of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between The World and Me, directed by Kamilah Forbes. Dahlak’s trilogy of works – Spiritrials (solo play), Try/Step/Trip (musical), Adapting History (documentary film) – take a personal look into the criminal justice system and the relationship between Black American music and Black American subjugation. He is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where he was awarded the Dean’s Full-Tuition Fellowship, and currently serves as the Assistant Director for the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma!
1st Reading: April 22 at 7:00 PM ET
2nd Reading: April 23 at 7:00 PM ET
3rd Reading: April 25 at 7:00 PM ET
Important Information:
For the safety of our audiences and staff, all ticketholders and attendees of this event must provide proof of vaccination in order to enter the theater. In addition, all attendees are required to wear face coverings while inside the theater. Click here for more information about our COVID safety policies.
How did the artists of the Harlem Renaissance respond to the historic events that shaped their time? And how are contemporary creatives dealing with the issues of the present moment in their own work? These questions lie at the heart of the Apollo commission of the New Black Fest, which has engaged 18 contemporary playwrights to explore these themes in 10-minute plays.
Over the course of three staged readings, each playwright will premiere their new work, dramatically performed by an exciting cast of actors and readers. Participating playwrights include James Ijames, Eric Micha Holmes, Dahlak Brathwaite, Donja Love, Dennis A. Allen II, Christina Anderson, and Mfoniso Udofia. This event will be taking place on the Apollo’s Soundstage.
Please note that each reading features different playwrights.
Part of Apollo New Works, the Apollo’s first major commissioning initiative launched in 2020.
Leadership support for the Apollo New Works initiative is provided by the Ford Foundation. The New Black Fest is funded by the HBO Fund for Theater, The Black Seed, and is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Commissioning support for The New Black Fest is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Please contact the Apollo Box office at [email protected] or (212) 531-5305 if any other special assistance is required for your visit.
Date: April 23 at 3 PM
Robyne Walker-Murphy explores the impact and transformative power of Black artists of the past and today with contemporary artists, Zora Howard (award winning playwright and screenwriter) and Carl Hancock Rux (multidisciplinary artist and Associate Director of Harlem Stage).
For the safety of our audiences and staff, all ticketholders and attendees of this event must provide proof of vaccination in order to enter the theater. In addition, all attendees are required to wear face coverings while inside the theater. Click here for more information about our COVID safety policies.
Directed by Cezar Williams It’s Complicated by Michael Bradford
Untitled by Dennis A. Allen II
Cliff & Clara & Her Baby by Lauren Whitehead
Directed by Goldie Patrick Cousins by France-luce Benson
Rampjaar by James Ijames
Dayz by Dahlak Brathwaite
Michael Bradford is currently Vice Provost for Faculty, Staff and Student Development at the University of Connecticut. Prior to this position he was the Department Head of Drama and Artistic Director of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. As a playwright, his work has been produced at various theatres, to include The American Place Theatre, the LARK Play Developmental Center, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the HERE Art Center and regionally at eta Creative Arts Foundation, Inc., Chicago, Il., the Playhouse on Park, Hartford, CT., ACT, Seattle, WA. internationally at Teatro Rita Montaner, Havana, Cuba and Brixton East Theatre, London, UK. His workshops and readings include The Negro Ensemble Company, Urban Stages and Liminal Studios (London, UK). His residencies and fellowships include the Manhattan Theatre Club Fellowship, Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellowship, and various residencies with the LARK Developmental Theatre, NY. He is a 2010 Fulbright Research Scholar (OLIVES AND BLOOD, Granada, Spain) and his work is published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., Smith and Krause and Dr. Cicero Press.
Dennis A. Allen II is from Hempstead, New York. His play The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi won the 35th annual Off Off Broadway Samuel French festival. Dennis’ full length play, When We Wake Up Dead and his monologue contribution to The New Black Fest’s Hands Up : 7 Playwrights 7- Testaments (How I Feel) are also published through Samuel French (Concord Theatricals). He is a recipient of Atlantic Theater Company’s inaugural Launch Commission; National Black Theatre’s, I Am Soul Playwright Residency and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group. He has developed and produced plays with; The Lark Play Development Center, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Fire This Time Festival, The Naked Expedition Project, 48 Hours in Harlem, TBTB and The New Black Fest.. He is faculty member of the Theatre Departments at Montclair State University, Laguardia Community College, Primary Stages ESPA and serves as a Co-Vice Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (region 1) National Playwriting Program. Dennis received his MFA from Brooklyn College Playwriting program and and will be taking over as its Program Coordinator this spring 2022.
Lauren A. Whitehead is a writer, performer and dramaturg. In 2018, Whitehead adapted “Between the World and Me,” for staging at the Apollo Theater and for the TV adaptation on HBO (2020). In her most recent performance, she originated the lead role of “Un/Sung” in the 2017 opera “We Shall Not Be Moved” (Dir. Bill T. Jones). Whitehead has been a Sundance Theater Lab Fellow and a Sundance Talent Forum Fellow. She has worked as a dramaturg at Hedgebrook and at The Denver Center for Performing Arts. Currently, she is a Professor of Drama at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Named “Someone to Watch” by American Theatre magazine, France-Luce Benson is the 2021 winner of the Lily’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, and was just awarded a new play commission from the Atlantic Theater Company, supported by NYSCA’s Individual Artist Award. Additional honors include Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Fellow, Zoetrope Grand Prize for her screenplay Caroline’s Wedding; Miranda Family Foundation grant recipient for her play Detained, Alfred P. Sloan New Play Commission for The Devil’s Salt, Princess Grace Award runner up for Boat People, Dramatists Guild Fellow 2016-17, Sam French OOB Festival Winner, NNPN Award for Risen from the Dough, and her play Talking Peace topped the list of most impactful plays in the Together L.A.: ATLA 2020 Virtual Theatre Festival. She has been a playwright in residence at The Camargo Foundation in France, Sacatar Institute in Brazil, Djerassi Foundation, and Space on Ryder Farm. Her plays have been produced and/or developed in by The Ensemble Studio Theatre where she is a company member, The Billy Holiday Theatre, The New Black Fest, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Crossroads Theatre Company, City Theatre of Miami, Juggernaut Theatre, and Loyola Marymount University, among others. Tigress of San Domingue, the second in her trilogy about the Haitian Revolution, was featured at the Atlantic Theatre Company Afro-Caribbean Mixfest 2021, was named a finalist of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2020, and was selected for The Playwrights Center’s Afro Atlantic Playwrights Festival in 2019. Her work has also been staged internationally at the Afropea Festival in Marseilles, France and Global Voices Theatre in London. She’s been published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, and Routledge Press. Her play Detained will have its world premiere at The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles in February 2022. She is currently a television staff writer for Viacom/CBS and 101 Studios.
JAMES IJAMES is a playwright, director and educator. He has appeared regionally in productions at The Arden Theatre Company, The Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Mauckingbird Theatre Company, and People’s Light and Theatre.
James’ plays have been produced by Flashpoint Theater Company, Orbiter 3, Theatre Horizon, Wilma Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), The National Black Theatre (NYC), Steppenwolf Theatre, Definition Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago IL) Shotgun Players (Berkeley, CA) and have received development with PlayPenn New Play Conference, The Lark, Playwright’s Horizon, Clubbed Thumb, Villanova Theater, Wilma Theater, Azuka Theatre and Victory Garden.
James is the 2011 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Artist recipient, and he has two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play for Superior Donuts and Angels in America and two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Direction of a Play for The Brothers Size with Simpatico Theatre Company and Gem of the Ocean with Arden Theatre. James is a 2015 Pew Fellow for Playwriting, the 2015 winner of the Terrance McNally New Play Award for WHITE, the 2015 Kesselring Honorable Mention Prize winner for ….Miz Martha, a 2017 recipient of the Whiting Award, a 2019 Kesselring Prize for Kill Move Paradise and a 2020 Steinberg Prize.
James was a founding member of Orbiter 3, Philadelphia’s first playwright producing collective. He received a B.A. in Drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and a M.F.A. in Acting from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. James an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a co-artistic of the Wilma Theater. He resides in South Philadelphia.
Dahlak Brathwaite is an award-winning playwright, composer, and performer. His work has been presented at The Smithsonian, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, REDCAT, MCA Chicago, Ars Nova, The Public Theater, SXSW, by Creative Time, and on HBO’s last two seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Dahlak has been commissioned as a playwright by TheatreWorks and the Apollo Theater. He made his debut performance at the Apollo in the reading of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between The World and Me, directed by Kamilah Forbes. Dahlak’s trilogy of works – Spiritrials (solo play), Try/Step/Trip (musical), Adapting History (documentary film) – take a personal look into the criminal justice system and the relationship between Black American music and Black American subjugation. He is a graduate of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where he was awarded the Dean’s Full-Tuition Fellowship, and currently serves as the Assistant Director for the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma!
1st Reading: April 22 at 7:00 PM ET
2nd Reading: April 23 at 7:00 PM ET
3rd Reading: April 25 at 7:00 PM ET
Important Information:
For the safety of our audiences and staff, all ticketholders and attendees of this event must provide proof of vaccination in order to enter the theater. In addition, all attendees are required to wear face coverings while inside the theater. Click here for more information about our COVID safety policies.
Step behind the curtain of the world-famous Apollo Theater. Located at The Apollo Stages at The Victoria’s Laura & Frank Baker Gallery, Got To Be There: The Apollo, Its People, and Its Stories is a first of its kind exhibition curated by The Apollo Archives. This collection of rare photographs, video recordings, and artifacts offers a rare glimpse into The Apollo’s 91 year history.
Free and open to the public with select viewings and conversations throughout the season, this stunning exhibition offers a glimpse into the many roles that The Apollo has played and continues to play in service to the arts, the Harlem community, and global pop culture at large.
Open Daily 10am – 6pm & 2 hours before curtain during performances
Featuring PAULA "THE TROPHY WIFE" CLARKE, UNCLE G. & MARK GREGORY
HOSTED BY MEMPHIS WILL
Jumpstart your weekend with a fun night of laughter, drinks, and tasty bites with the best up and coming talent in comedy today. Curated by Bob Sumner (legendary producer of Def Comedy Jam, creator of Laff Mobb on Aspire), The Apollo Comedy Club presents a night of comedic sets that will have you rolling in laughter.
Perfect for date night, or a night out with friends, don’t miss your chance to heat up your Thursday with the hottest ticket in Harlem.
Singer and songwriter Du’Bois A’Keen and friends perform a mix of contemporary gospel in this spirt-lifting night of music. The concert includes excerpts from Du’Bois’ commissioned work with the dance company Alvin Ailey entitled “Sacred Songs”. A’Keen’s effortless range accompanied by guests vocalists creates an experience that is a salve for the soul.
Broadway’s acclaimed vocalist AYANA GEORGE JACKSON takes the stage to deliver a night of pop, soul and gospel. Ayana (fresh from MJ on Broadway) takes center stage for a powerful night of music and down-to-earth ‘sangin!
Straight from her Carnegie Hall headlining debut and the release of her 4th studio album Only Smoke, Shoshana Bean returns to The Apollo to continue her holiday tradition with an evening of Christmas favorites.
This time in the intimate café style setting of The Apollo Stages at The Victoria, don’t miss the opportunity to bring in the holiday season with this Grammy Award-winning, Tony-nominated powerhouse. Tickets will sell out, don’t wait!
Show Times:
Dec 15 - 7:30 PM (Sold Out)
Dec 16 - 7 PM & 9:30 PM
Bring in the holiday season with this very special edition of Amateur Night Holiday Special at The Apollo Stages at The Victoria. This family-friendly evening showcases talented alumni of the Apollo’s long-running signature series. The program captures the spirit of young performers all hoping to follow in the footsteps of Apollo Legends like Ella Fitzgerald and H.E.R., whose careers were launched on the stage of The Apollo.
Featuring ONIKA MCLEAN, MARK SIMMONS, STEPHON RAICKETT
HOSTED BY MUGGA
Jumpstart your weekend with a fun night of laughter, drinks, and tasty bites with the best up and coming talent in comedy today. Curated by Bob Sumner (legendary producer of Def Comedy Jam, creator of Laff Mobb on Aspire), The Apollo Comedy Club presents a night of comedic sets that will have you rolling in laughter.
Perfect for date night, or a night out with friends, don’t miss your chance to heat up your Thursday with the hottest ticket in Harlem. Doors open at 9pm; Showtime is 10pm. There is a $10 food/beverage minimum.
Apollo Comedy Club is part of The Apollo’s Winter/Spring 2026 season.
Singer, songwriter, pianist, and historian Nia Drummond moves fluidly through opera, jazz, soul, gospel, and spirituals — genres that form the living archive of Black musical expression. In this month of Black History and Love, join Nia for an evening of music that lives at the crossroads of tradition and transformation.
Featuring JOEY B., KHRISTIN Y.S.F. BROOKS, COMEDIAN BUDDY LOVE
HOSTED BY DREW FRASER
Jumpstart your weekend with a fun night of laughter, drinks, and tasty bites with the best up and coming talent in comedy today. Curated by Bob Sumner (legendary producer of Def Comedy Jam, creator of Laff Mobb on Aspire), The Apollo Comedy Club presents a night of comedic sets that will have you rolling in laughter.
Perfect for date night, or a night out with friends, don’t miss your chance to heat up your Thursday with the hottest ticket in Harlem. Doors open at 9pm; Showtime is 10pm. There is a $10 food/beverage minimum.
Apollo Comedy Club is part of The Apollo’s Winter/Spring 2026 season.
Turn down the lights and get ready for a night of Quiet Storm with singer and songwriter Alex Tyree. With lush vocals and unhurried melodies, Alex creates a night of music written in the sacred language of life and love.
Celebrate Women’s History Month with The Apollo and Harlem-based film collective Melanin Madness. After a sold-out 2025 Halloween-themed screening, we’re running it back, this time for the ladies. As always and in true Apollo fashion, the audience is a part of the experience so grab your crew and get ready to talk back, cheer and join the party in this evening of community, culture, and fun.
About Melanin Madness:
MELANIN MADNESS interactive screenings turn classic and cult films into full-on cultural celebrations! With props, character cards, and playful hosts, audiences shout lines, sip on keywords, and dive into the joy of cinema—loud, proud, and in community! Led by Obie-Award Winner Eric Lockley (The Movement Theatre Company, Harlem9), his team of multidisciplinary artists have been creating immersive theater collectively for over 5 years. Featuring: Jovany Andujar (NYC Educator), Dolores Pereira (Culture curator, Co-founder of Loud and Lyfted and DND:Two Queens Doing Things) and Jordon Waters (TheyGotTime Productions, creator of The Art of Killin’ It and Party Killer). Past partnerships include Maysles Cinema with screenings of Octavia Spencer’s villainous turn in MA, the hilarious Halle Berry cult-classic BAPS and the spectacular Jenifer Lewis’ Jackie’s Back as a tipsy sing-along. Come have a drink, laugh and engage!
Featuring SOFIA NEGRON, DEZZ WHITE, SHAWN HARVEY
HOSTED BY LARRY LANCASTER
Jumpstart your weekend with a fun night of laughter, drinks, and tasty bites with the best up and coming talent in comedy today. Curated by Bob Sumner (legendary producer of Def Comedy Jam, creator of Laff Mobb on Aspire), The Apollo Comedy Club presents a night of comedic sets that will have you rolling in laughter.
Perfect for date night, or a night out with friends, don’t miss your chance to heat up your Thursday with the hottest ticket in Harlem. Doors open at 9pm; Showtime is 10pm. There is a $10 food/beverage minimum.
Apollo Comedy Club is part of The Apollo’s Winter/Spring 2026 season.
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