Bill T. Jones on NBC Nightly News

TheGrio.com named Bill one of its 100 History Makers in the Making on Feb. 2. In lieu of that, NBC Nightly News aired this profile on Bill.

View the web-only interview with Ann Curry here.

Bill T. & Bill on Bill Moyers Journal

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Bill Moyers Journal features Bill T. Jones in an hour-long episode discussing Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray.

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Co-written and Directed by Bill T. Jones
Now on Broadway

A provocative hybrid of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music and Bill T. Jones's visionary staging, Fela! opened on Broadway November 23.

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Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray

Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray, a new full evening work inspired by Abraham Lincoln and celebrating the slain president's 2009 bicentennial, has premiered at the Ravinia Festival and is now on tour.

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Follow the Tour

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The Company's much-anticipated production Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray has premiered and is now traveling across the country. Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong provides behind-the-scenes footage from the tour, and shows how the piece changes and grows over time. Visit the video diary to see excerpts from the sold-out run in San Francisco.

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Come see for yourself what
The New York Times calls
"a show that melts walls."

Watch the cast of Fela! on The Colbert Report, Dec 7

Read the New York Times Feature


Serenade/The Proposition

Serenade/The Proposition approaches the legacy of Abraham Lincoln as a rumination on the nature of history. On the eve of the Bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, some of his documented words, his contemporary's writings and speeches, and other texts are used to set up the push and pull of historical perspective.

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A Good Man

The documentary A Good Man, in production now, chronicles Bill T. Jones in the process of creating Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray. Ravinia has partnered with Kartemquin Films in the creation of the documentary, to be co-produced by the Award-winning American Masters series and will be a centerpiece in their 2011 broadcast season.

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Latest news:

Watch Bill T. Jones on The Colbert Report, Dec. 7

Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls Fela! "hot (and seriously cool)"
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Upcoming Performances

Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray
February 12, 2010
SUNY Purchase
Purchase, NY
914.251.6200
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Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray
February 25, 2010
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
812.855.1103
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Serenade/The Proposition
February 28, 2010
Alverno College
Milwaukee, WI
414.382.6044
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Repertory
March 16, 2010
Teatro Ariosto
Reggio Emilia, Italy
(39) 0522.458854
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Bill's Blog

◊ Happy New Year!
January 6, 2010

...I quoted what the young Rabbi said at the memorial for Arnie Zane in April of 1988: "The day is long, the work is great, we're not obliged to finish the task, but neither are we allowed to ignore it." This was a condolence to family and friends as we honored a young, talented man whose life had abruptly ended.

Other Events

◊ Fela! on Broadway

Opening Night
Eugene O'Neil Theater
New York, NY
November 23, 2009

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