{"id":379776,"date":"2026-10-22T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379776\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:26:09","slug":"anika-noni-rose-set-for-benefit-reading-of-rachel-blands-quasara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379776\/","title":{"rendered":"Anika Noni Rose Set for Benefit Reading of Rachel Bland&#8217;s Quasara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony winner\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/anika-noni-rose-vault-0000102916\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anika Noni Rose<\/a> (most\u00a0recently on Broadway in\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/the-balusters-broadway-samuel-j-friedman-theatre-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Balusters<\/a>)\u00a0will star in a\u00a0benefit reading of\u00a0Rachel Bland&#8217;s\u00a0Quasara\u00a0November 1 at 7 PM at Royal Family Productions\u00a0on West 46th St.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lorna-ventura-vault-0000004770\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorna Ventura<\/a>, the one-act, one-woman play is\u00a0set in a sci-fi\/fantasy universe and\u00a0revolves around washed-up superhero Quasara, who has all the powers of a black hole inside her.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Royal Family Productions has partnered\u00a0with Ann Hairston for the inaugural William and Enid Hairston Artist Fellowship, honoring the legacy of her father, William R. Hairston Jr., a trailblazing Black actor, playwright, and cultural leader.\u00a0This fellowship champions Black female playwrights and stories of Black joy, imagination, and possibility. The inaugural Playwriting Fellow\u00a0is\u00a0Bland.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tickets are $100 for general admission, $250 for reserved seating, and $500 for VIP Meet and Greet. All tickets are tax-deductible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tickets need to be purchased in advance by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalfamilyproductions.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" title=\"http:\/\/www.royalfamilyproductions.org\">RoyalFamilyProductions.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony winner\u00a0Anika Noni Rose (most\u00a0recently on Broadway in\u00a0The Balusters)\u00a0will star in a\u00a0benefit reading of\u00a0Rachel Bland&#8217;s\u00a0Quasara\u00a0November 1 at 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-379776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}