Fading to black means stopping. It’s a period mark. An end point. The story is over. Fading to white? It can be used to mean so much more. It could be the end, but it also doesn’t have to be. It could ...

Fade to Black is a documentary released in 2017. This hard-hitting documentary dives into the battle for voluntary assisted dying. We meet Peter, a CEO with a terminal illness who’s over the whole ...

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 ...

Denise O'Neal is a longtime supporter of the Houston arts community, and one of her favorite events has been Scriptwriters Houston's TenxTen, an annual festival of 10 10-minute plays by 10 different ...

The year was 1984 and everything was fast. Metallica tore from the Bay Area’s womb with their ripsnorting debut, Kill ‘Em All, the previous year; Dave Mustaine was complaining about his former ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the beginning, it was just about getting Black playwrights on stage. “That was the mission,” says S. Denise O’Neal, founder and executive director of Shabach Enterprise, the nonprofit behind the ...

As announced last week on TNA iMPACT, this week’s TNA iMPACT episode is another unusual one, as it’s a “Bound For Glory: Fade to Black” special episode. Like after Slammiversary 2025, TNA Wrestling ...

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 ...