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At two hours and forty-five minutes long including intermission, PLEASE be good! This is the thought that came to my mind when I agreed to attend the Los Angeles premier of the highly anticipated stage play, Zeola Gaye’s MY BROTHER MARVIN, at the Pantages Theatre on Friday. Quite frankly, tagging alongside EURweb publisher, Lee Bailey, [...]
*This weekend, the curtain will rise at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles (Hollywood) for the highly anticipated stage play “My Brother Marvin.” The eagerly anticipated production was written by renown director and producer Angela Dunlap, and inspired entirely by Zeola Gaye, sister to the late music icon Marvin Gaye. Zeola once again gave another [...]
*Blacks are breaking many legs on Broadway in box office hit plays and their stellar performances did not go unnoticed by Tony voters and have landed them Tony nods. And the proof is in the pudding. At the 2013 Tony Award nominations announced on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 by actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and five-time [...]
*Walter Mosley, celebrated as a novelist, is also a playwright and his play “White Lilies” has opened at the Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey. “It’s kind of a story of love and loss and a coming of age in a strange way.” Bridgid Coulter said. Coulter is in the role of Etta Mae, [...]
*Phylicia Rashad does it again with “Joe Turner’s Come & Gone” at the Mark Taper Forum in Downtown Los Angeles. The production is a breathtaking, full house success! EURweb associate LaCora Stephens of the “YES! Show” was there in full effect amongst the star studded audience. Original Broadway cast member Angela Bassett described “Turner” as [...]
*David Alan Grier can thank one person for his role in “Tyler Perry Presents Peeples” – his co-star Kerry Washington. “Kerry and I were doing “Race” on Broadway and the [film’s] producers all came,” the 56-year-old “In Living Color” veteran told us during interviews for “Peeples,” opening Friday. “I don’t know how much Kerry had [...]
*Vanessa Williams is going all in for Mother’s Day this year. She’s not doing anything conventional or run of the mill, she’s working. But she’s going to be on stage in her new Broadway play, “Trip to Bountiful,” which co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr. and Cicely Tyson. “I have a three o’clock matinee,” she told People. “No rest [...]
*If you are just looking to relax and share a few laughs, stroll on over to the Harlem School of the Arts, located at 647 St Nicholas Ave (142nd St) in Manhattan, and catch the Hadley Players’ comedy play “Benefits” which will be at the theatre until Sunday, May 12th. Written by Martha J. Thomas and [...]
Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby is a classic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, arrives in theaters May 10, 2013 *I was prepared to be bored in reviewing the Warner Bros/Village Roadshow Picture presentation of The Great Gatsby, based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but it was an enchanting and wonder-filled [...]
*It was a night of nights at the Mark Taper Forum last night when the stars came out for the opening of the August Wilson classic “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” directed by Phylicia Rashad. Stars in attendance included Angela Bassett, Dawn Lewis, Debbie Allen, Norm Nixon, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Harry Lennix, Lamman Rucker, Lynn [...]
*The new Broadway production of Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, featuring Emmy-winning stage and screen star Cicely Tyson, has extended its run at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The production, which officially opened April 23, had been scheduled for a 14-week limited engagement through July 7. It has now extended an additional eight weeks and [...]
*Wendy Williams is taking over y’all! The talk show diva is about to rock your socks off in her Broadway debut. She’s set to play the role of “Matron Mama Morton” in Broadway’s “Chicago” musical. In an interview with Essence.com, the gossip queen dished about her experience and upcoming performances. ESSENCE.com: You hosted Broadway.com’s Audience [...]
*The exquisite Kirk Douglas Theatre in downtown Culver City, California was the host site for the world premiere of The Royale by Marco Ramirez starring David St. Louis as boxing champ Jay “The Sport” Jackson, under the direction of Daniel Aukin. The spectacular lighting of Lap Chi Chu, the set design of Andrew Boyce and [...]
*(New York, NY) — GRAMMY® nominated, multi-talented entertainer Deborah Cox will play her final performance of the Broadway production of JEKYLL & HYDE on Sunday, May 12, 2013, when the musical, which also stars Constantine Maroulis, ends its limited Broadway engagement after 15 previews and 30 regular performances at the Marquis Theatre. Direct from a 25-week [...]
*NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. Crossroads Theatre Company (Marshall Jones, III, producing artistic director), one of the nation’s premiere African-American theaters, will present the world premieres of two one-act plays as its Season Finale this May: the powerful drama White Lilies, by best-selling novelist Walter Mosley, and the adult comedy The Talk, by France-Luce Benson. Previews begin [...]
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