“You can basically trace any popular cultural form that we enjoy today back to the Apollo Theater as the place that did it first or did it best,” says Ted Fox, author of the 1983 book Showtime ...

No doubt — it was the ultimate soul-man showtime at the Apollo, raising more than $3 million for the nonprofit organization that has been the music mecca for everyone from Louis Armstrong and ...

The singer appeared on a kids version of Showtime at the Apollo when she was 9 years old Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.

Sutton also developed the television program “Showtime at the Apollo,” which combined professional performers with amateurs, ...