Theater
Tony Award winner James Earl Jones will return the Broadway for the spring 2012 revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. According to Playbill, “Jones (Fences, The Great White Hope, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Driving Miss Daisy) will play the former President of the United States. His endorsement of candidates is part of the plot of the political drama....
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Movie star Thandie Newton is currently starring in Ariel Dorfman‘s psychological stage play “Death and the Maiden” at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End (London’s Broadway, for American readers). Newton plays Paulina Salas, a former political prisoner trying to come to terms with her traumatizing past. When a stranger arrives at the isolated beach house she shares...
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Oh joy! A stunning new trailer for the all-black Oklahoma! was released recently. The play has been extended through November 6 at the Portland Center Stage in Portland, Oregon. Get your tickets here. “Things are changing. The country is changing. Gotta change with it.” —Curly Those words express familiar sentiments often heard these days, but are spoken in this...
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Black star power was out in full effect at the Broadway opening of The Mountaintop. The official opening performance delivered rave reviews, and a star-studded red carpet and after party. Some of the black actors to show up included the cast Angela Bassett and Samuel L Jackson. Others included the legendary Ruby Dee, Cicely Tyson, Phylicia Rashad, Courtney B...
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The Mountaintop is now playing on Broadway with Samuel L Jackson as Martin Luther King, and Angela Bassett as Camae, a Lorraine Motel chambermaid who pays Dr. King a visit the evening before he is assassinated. Playbill brings us an exclusive video clip of the veteran actors submerged in their characters. Watch below. (Photos/Video: Playbill/Joan Marcus) RELATED ARTICLES: Angela...
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The glamorous spectacle that is Sister Act– the musical, has recently opened in the UK to rave reviews. Cynthia Erivo plays the lead role, Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg‘s character in the original film), a nightclub singer on the run from gangsters. “A star is born in Cynthia Erivo, who takes on the role of Deloris made famous by...
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