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Lena Horne Becomes The First Black Woman to Have a Broadway Theater Named In Her Honor
The Today Show via AOL· 2 years agoLena Horne made history this week as the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named in her...
Lena Horne becomes first Black woman honored with Broadway theater
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLena Horne became the first Black woman in U.S. history to have a Broadway theater named in her...
Lena Horne Theatre Coming To Broadway Next Month
Deadline via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStage, film and musical icon Lena Horne will officially become the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named for her when The Nederlander...
Lena Horne Inspired Better Black Images Onscreen — but Losing This Role Ended Her Hollywood Career
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 8 months agoDonald Bogle, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University’s Tisch School...
Lena Horne Theatre renaming taking place on Broadway
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBroadways’ Brooks Atkinson Theatre will be officially renamed the Lena Horne Theatre next month. The Nederlander Organization announced that this […] The...
Vanessa Williams Recalls Bursting 'into Tears' When She Met Lena Horne: 'She Meant That Much'
People via Yahoo News· 2 years agogetty (2) Vanessa Williams and the theater community came together to honor late Broadway luminary...
How Lena Horne Won Over MGM — and Became a “Test Case” for Hollywood
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn the early 1940s, a young Lena Horne began an engagement at an intimate L.A. club called Little...
Lena Horne Is The First Black Woman To Have A Theater On Broadway Bear Her Name
Travel Noire via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThose who know Broadway, have heard of the Gershwin and Shubert theaters, which are New York...
NYC Mayor Adams, New York State Governor Hochul attend Lena Horne Theatre renaming on Broadway
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNew York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams were on hand at the Lena Horne...
Lena Horne Theatre to be unveiled on Broadway on Nov. 1
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNEW YORK — Lena Horne will make Black history again on The Great White Way this fall. The trailblazing stage, screen and music star will become the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater ...