For the first time in at least 15 years, the waters gushed from the central fountain at Ethel Waters Park along Commission Street in Chester and the city was there Saturday to celebrate it. For the ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Ethel Waters' birthday today! Vocalist and actress Ethel Waters was a key figure in the development of African American culture between the two World Wars. She broke ...

freeFall Theatre Company's 2023/2024 season opens with an all-new play with music written by and starring Rose Weaver (freeFall debut) as the one and only Ethel Waters. A pioneer film, stage, ...

The coming days mark birth anniversaries of two surpassing singers of American song—Ethel Waters’s 125th birthday and Mahalia Jackson’s 110th. As Black women, both performers bravely breached multiple ...

Ninety years ago, something remarkable happened on Broadway: An anti-lynching song, “Supper Time,” had its premiere in a major production that ran 400 times. The performance marked a brilliant ...

Last month, we ran a Retro Record piece on Ethel Waters, her artistic accomplishments, and a sapphic relationship she had during the Harlem Renaissance. As anyone who’s listened to music in the past ...

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Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle: One of the most celebrated entertainers of mid-20th century America, Ethel Waters was as contradictory as she was talented. "Heat Wave: ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — For Jannie Jones, portraying Ethel Waters on stage is more than a role. It’s a calling. Jones created the role of Ethel Waters in the original production of “Ethel Waters: His Eye is on ...

1 Alaska Thunderf*ck and J. Harrison Ghee Will Lead OH, MARY! National Tour Of course, we can lay blame for that at the feet of the predominantly white (and white-focused) entertainment industry that ...

A century ago, in 1921, Waters cut her first record. “Down Home Blues” appeared on the Black Swan label, named after the sobriquet of Elizabeth Greenfield, a 19th-century slave-born soprano who had ...