Every January for the past several years, emerging Black playwrights have an opportunity to showcase and refine their work at the Fade to Black Reading Series. Artists submit their work, and, if ...

Heavy metal and suicide can make for an unintentionally volatile combination. Ozzy Osbourne released the song “Suicide Solution” on his debut album Blizzard of Ozz in 1980, and five years later he was ...

Short plays from Black playwrights take center stage during the Fade To Black Reading Series. Credit: Photo by Rudy Mui S. Denise O’Neal, playwright and executive director of Shabach Enterprise, says ...

Shabach Enterprise’s FADE TO BLACK Play Festival has been going on for 12 seasons and shows no signs of slowing down. Next year, the producers and organizers are planning an entire Arts Festival that ...

Ten years ago, a lightbulb went off in S. Denise O’Neal’s head that would change the theater landscape in Houston. At the time, O’Neal was on the board of Scriptwriters Houston and she was very much ...

For the first time in Texas, a festival is placing Black artistry at the center of a multidisciplinary celebration. The Fade to Black Arts Festival brings together theater, poetry, film, visual art, ...

Since founding the Fade To Black Arts Festival in 2013, S. Denise O’Neal has redefined the landscape for African-American theatre and storytelling in Houston. As Executive Director of Shabach ...

The new and expanded Fade To Black Arts Festival has grown from a modest play festival aimed at getting Black playwrights recognized to a full-blown array of artistic enterprises with over 150 events ...

Shine A Light, So Amazing, Daughter Of The Universe, Ain't I Human, Lonesome Blue Butterfly, Spell Of Romance, Say Her Name, Transition (To A Promised Land), Privacy ...

Films is bringing three more cult horrors from its Slasher Classics Collection to 4K Ultra HD this coming March in 1987’s Stripped to Kill, 1980’s Fade to Black and 1986’s ...