Making Art.
Our Way.
coming up with Aurway
Coming Home meets a family at their first reunion after years of estrangement. Siblings discover just how much has changed. Through music inspired by our favorite cookout classics and eye-opening dialogue, we challenge the traditions that make up strong Black families and uncover the timeless, unconditional bond that is love.
Friday, November 19th at 9pm
Sunday, November 21st at 2pm
Tickets $25 / $30 at the door
15 West 28th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, 10001
Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) returns with its first Spark Musical Theatre Festival NYC, allowing composers and librettists to present where they are in their creative process as a work-in-progress with audience feedback. Visit the theater any evening during this three-week event, and you'll find yourself transported in a number of surprising ways perhaps by a bouncy new musical that will have you humming. Emerging Artists has always been about new works, talents, and voices. That's never been more evident than now.
Aurway is a Newark-based nonprofit producing original musicals and immersive arts programming — created by and for Black and brown communities.
Who We Are
Born from a shared vision and rooted in Newark, New Jersey, Aurway has spent five years building a space where Black and brown stories take center stage, not as an afterthought, but as the entire point.
We are a company of artists, educators, and community builders. We create original work. We train the next generation. We show up for our community. And we do it all our way.
Our Work — The Repertoire
Original Stories. Broadway Caliber. Unapologetically Ours.
Aurway maintains a growing catalog of original musicals written, composed, and produced in-house, award-winning works that have been performed at the New York Theater Festival, the National Black Theatre Festival, and on stages across New Jersey.
“One of the sweetest memories I recall, was being able to greet little black girls after the show ended, and hearing them say that they see themselves in me, that they see themselves on stage and that served as a striking reminder that representation always matters…”
Erica Philpot, on playing Alyse in Something like a Fairytale, National Black Theater Festival 2017.
“Black art is important because it is conceived with hope and pain. The pain gives it the authenticity, and the hope gives it the power. That’s what Aurway is…”
