Kings Theatre

Strong as Brooklyn. #KingsBKLYN

"The team at the ornately refurbished theater is led by a group of 'amazing women [who] support the Flatbush community fiercely." - Amber Mundinger, on #KingsBklyn for Bring Music Home Bring Music Home is a behind-the-scenes look at an industry silenced by the pandemic and tells the story of music venues, including Kings Theatre, across the country and the individuals behind them. With a BMH book purchase, a portion of proceeds goes to NIVA - National Independent Venue Asso...ciation to help #SaveOurStages. See the project ft. #KingsBklyn in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. Purchase a BMH book today: bringmusichome.com/store/p/bring-music-home-book

NOW PLAYING! In 2016 The Lumineers returned to their hometown of Brooklyn, NY for an unforgettable taping of "Live From The Artists Den" at our very own Kings Theatre. Catch the full show with unreleased tracks and never-before-seen interview footage plus their astounding visual companion film to the band's third album "III" in A Double Feature Premiere on the big screen at a theater near you. For tickets and locations, visit: https://www.cinelifeentertainment.com/event/the-lumineers/

On this #WorldTheatreDay we celebrate our staff, creatives, performers, stagehands, and local communities who come together to create and experience the magic of live performance. We can't wait to safely welcome everyone back to our venues and make that magic again!

We are deeply saddened and outraged by the recent shootings in Atlanta, and the growing anti-Asian violence around the country. We recognize that hate crimes, racism and xenophobia against the Asian community have been recurring threads in history and have increased significantly since the pandemic. We stand in solidarity with our Asian American & Pacific Islander communities and strongly denounce white supremacy and all forms of hate and intolerance. #stopAAPIhate At Ambass...ador Theatre Group, we champion diversity on stage, among our staff, artists, and audiences. We believe theatre and music bring people together through shared experiences. We know that the only way to affect change is through engagement. As such, we are actively involved in this dialogue and committed to using our voices to affect meaningful change in our communities. See more

In 2016 The Lumineers returned to their hometown of Brooklyn, NY for an unforgettable taping of "Live From The Artists Den" at our very own Kings Theatre! Catch the full show with unreleased tracks and never-before-seen interview footage plus their astounding visual companion film to the band's third album "III" in A Double Feature Premiere on the big screen at a theater near you. The Lumineers: Live From the Artists Den - Double Feature hits movie theaters nationwide starting April 1! For tickets and locations, visit: ArtistsDen.com/Lumineers21

I’m in the dressing room of Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, sitting on a couch and mindlessly strumming my guitar and trying to avoid eye contact with the cat cake. - @jefftweedy, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with @wilco, Etc. #KingsBklyn : Mark Doyle

We are proud to spotlight our smart, passionate, creative & incredibly successful women. This year's Women's Day theme is #ChooseToChallenge & we recite "The Ocean You" (Nikita Gill) as a celebration & a call to action. #ATGIWD2021 #IWDpoetry #IWD2021

"But more importantly, it changed the perception of the neighborhood. Having the who’s who of the fashion world venture to and talk about my hometown, Flatbush, was beautiful to see and broke down barriers." WHERE CULTURE IS KING: In this Adweek spotlight of Pyer Moss and general manager of Kings Theatre, Stefanie Tomlin, read about how the Brooklyn-based venue hosted one of the hottest shows that New York Fashion Week has ever seen. #KingsBklyn cc: Adweek, Winston Peters, MYUBERLIFE, Stefanie Tomlin, Kerby Jean-Raymond, and Pyer Moss.

Kings Theatre Brooklyn, NY: Flatbush, Brooklyn was founded when the first Dutch settlers arrived from Europe in the 1650s. Slavery was common amongst the Dutch families who used enslaved people to work the land. By 1790, 30% of Kings County residents were African Americans, and almost all were enslaved - the highest concentration of enslaved people north of the Mason-Dixon line. An obituary in the Long Island Star on March 29, 1810, describes a negro woman named Eve who w...as buried in what is referenced as the African burying ground of the village of Flatbush. Local historians suggest that traces of the burial ground still exist at the junction of Bedford and Church Avenues, where human remains have been discovered on several occasions. When the city demolished P.S. 90 in 2015, archeologists conducted test excavations to determine if the site was a burial location. Although evidence of graves was not found, several fragmented body parts were recovered. Kings Theatre was asked to participate in a feedback session with the P.S. 90 task force, who are charged with establishing how best to tell the virtually silent stories of the enslaved people of Flatbush and how best to memorialize the area. Ambassador Theatre Group - North America celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth

Curran San Francisco, CA: August Wilson has been referred to as "theater's poet of Black America." One of his most famous and beloved stage plays, FENCES, premiered at Curran in 1987. Starring James Earl Jones and Mary Alice, FENCES headed to Broadway where it won 4 Tony Awards and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Wilson's script tells the story of a former Negro League player, now working in the 1950s as a waste collector, struggling to provide for his family and come to term...s with the events of his life. August Wilson’s plays marked a breakthrough for black voices in theater. Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience, Wilson has said. Few dramatic writers before him were able to capture the black experience in a manner that both rang true for those who had lived through it and speak to mainstream theater audiences. With pieces like FENCES, audiences were introduced to characters who were free of traditional and offensive stereotypes. FENCES was adapted for the screen in 2016, with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis reprising their Tony Award-winning performances of lead characters Troy and Rose from the highly successful 2010 Broadway revival. The film’s premiere was held at Curran, celebrating its launch with a homecoming in the same place the play had originated 30 years earlier. Ambassador Theatre Group - North America celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth

Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts New Orleans, LA: One of the oldest neighborhoods in New Orleans, Tremé is recognized as one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in America. In the early 1800s Tremé residents were mainly comprised of free people of color and refugees from the Haitian revolution. In the late 1960s, a controversial urban renewal in the Tremé neighborhood resulted in a decade of debate, and a large portion of central Tremé was torn down.... The land stood vacant until the 1970s, when the city created Louis Armstrong Park in the area and named Congo Square within Armstrong Park. Previously known as Place de Nègres, Congo Square took its name from the tradition of enslaved people who gathered there on Sundays, their day off, to sing, beat drums, sell homemade goods, and celebrate. In 1970, the park held the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In 1993, the performing arts center in Louis Armstrong Park was renamed in honor of the New Orleans gospel music icon Mahalia Jackson. Often referred to as the 'Queen of Gospel', Mahalia was born in 1911 in New Orleans, where she began her lifelong dedication to gospel music. Ambassador Theatre Group - North America celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth

Majestic & Empire Theatres San Antonio, TX: In 1929 a typical evening at the Majestic Theatre featured a showing of the main movie followed by vaudeville acts. Due to Jim Crow segregation laws, when Black San Antonians wanted to attend a show at the theatres, they had to enter a separate entrance behind the building and were limited to seating in the "Colored Balcony." In 1934, Cab Calloway and his Harlem Orchestra performed to record audiences for a week's engagement at t...he Majestic. Calloway was the first African-American musician to sell a million records from a single song and to have a nationally syndicated radio show. Anticipating a large turnout of Black patrons for the engagement, Majestic management opened the entire "White Balcony," including the mezzanine and balcony levels, to Colored patrons for the first time in its history, with tickets starting at $0.35. After opening night, newspaper reviews exclaimed, "Thousands of All Races Hear and Appreciate Young Maestro While Here," and that the performance was "conducted in a most enjoyable and praiseworthy manner, something seldom witnessed," beginning to break a color barrier in American entertainment. Ambassador Theatre Group - North America celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth

Hudson Theatre New York, NY: As one of New York City’s oldest city performance venues, the 117-year-old Hudson Theatre has welcomed some of Broadway’s most influential stars and played host to breakout acts as a TV and radio studio. In 1956, Hudson Theatre’s stage hosted the premier of NBC’s The Steve Allen Show, featuring The Will Mastin Trio starring Sammy Davis Jr. and movie star Kim Novak as headline guests. During 1964-66, Davis received racist hate mail while starring... in the Broadway adaptation of the musical 'Golden Boy', in which his character develops a relationship with a white woman, paralleling his own interracial relationship with May Britt. Davis was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance, and the show was said to have featured the first interracial kiss on Broadway. At the time Davis appeared in the musical, although New York had no laws against it, debate about interracial marriage was still ongoing in America as Loving v. Virginia was being fought. It was only in 1967, after the musical finished performances, that anti-miscegenation laws in all states were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. Ambassador Theatre Group - North America celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth