
08/20/2025
This is wonderful to hear.
Tony Award-winner Wendell Pierce has secured $10M to help preserve historic Black theaters like the Billie Holiday Theatre, Black Spectrum Theatre, and The Negro Ensemble Company. Partnering with Caesars Palace Times Square, the fund aims to boost production, marketing, and visibility—part of a larger $250M community investment. Pierce calls economic development “a key social justice issue of our time.”