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*GRAMMY®-nominated R&B superstar Deborah Cox is back on Broadway, starring in the musical Jekyll & Hyde. She’s winning rave reviews from critics and theater-goers alike for her role as Lucy, a lady of the night with a yearning for a better life, who captures the attention of both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, played by [...]
*Rocky the Musical, a stage adaptation of Sylvester Stallone’s 1976 Oscar-winning classic about a Philadelphia fighter, will open on Broadway next spring, it was announced Sunday. Sly and his fellow producers confirmed the musical will begin previews at the historic Winter Garden Theatre in February 2014 before curtains rise officially in March. Rocky the Musical [...]
Paramount Pictures’ Pain & Gain is hilarious but powerful, based on a true story it arrives in theaters April 26, 2013 *”It was all MichaelBay,” said Anthony Mackie who stars, along with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Mark Wahlberg, in the Paramount Pictures release of Pain & Gain – a true story of kidnapping, extortion [...]
*Award-winning actress Lynn Whitfield is a busy bee these days. She has two major projects brewing, one of which is in progress, and the other happens this Friday, April 26. In “My Brother Marvin,” a stage play that explores the family drama of legendary crooner Marvin Gaye, Ms. Whitfiled plays the role of the matriarch [...]
*Audra McDonald has been hosting this season’s “Live From Lincoln Center” series on PBS, but she’s set to command center stage next month for the show’s season finale. The special, titled “Audra McDonald In Concert: Go Back Home,” will see the “Private Practice” star and five-time Tony Award winner performing a gala concert at Lincoln [...]
*If you were to ask me “What’s Going On,” I would say the Marvin Gaye play, “My Brother Marvin,” co-produced and written by Zeola Gaye, Marvin’s sister. The play is being presented at the Beacon Theatre, located at 2124 Broadway (74th St) in New York, on April 11th through April 14th. Presently on a 22 [...]
*”Motown: The Musical” makes its big Broadway debut on Sunday in New York, and the Detroit News has details of what’s in store. The show has gone through a month of previews, tweaking and trimming numbers from its length (just under three hours), which features snippets of some 70 Motown hits. The producers said they [...]
*Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad will star opposite Orlando Bloom in a new Broadway run of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but this time the bitter divide between the Montagues and Capulets will be underscored by their different ethnicities. Five-time Tony nominee David Leveaux will direct the staging, also set to feature Jayne Houdyshell (Follies) [...]
Chante’ Moore signs new record deal prepares to release ‘Moore is More’ in April, 2013 *“I’m better than ever, I’ve grown vocally,” said Chante’ Moore about her upcoming studio release, “Moore is More,” on her new label Shanachie Entertainment. “The album comes out in April and the single probably before that. I want the single [...]
*The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, a multi-cultural festival of solo artists, celebrated 20 years of presenting live theatrical performances in the Los Angeles community last night. Since 1993 this small company, which began with a “chance meeting” of two solo actors from differing cultures, Adilah Barnes, an African American; and Miriam Reed, an Anglo, [...]
*R&B crooners Angie Stone and Brian McKnight have joined the touring cast of three-time Tony Award winner Hinton Battle’s play, “Love Lies.” The play sounds hilarious. A musical that made its debut last summer at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, the plot is based on three women who arrive at a funeral only to discover [...]
*Angela Bassett, in theaters later this month with “Olympus Has Fallen,” could’ve also returned to Broadway later this month opposite the legendary Cicely Tyson in The Trip to Bountiful. As previously reported, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams, Condola Rashad and Tom Wopat co-star in the revival directed by Michael Wilson and set to begin a [...]
*“My sister and I ran across my mother and my fathers’ journals and the things we read, we were like, ‘whoa, these are things we didn’t know,’” Zeola Gaye tells EURweb publisher Lee Bailey, as we continue with Part 2 of the illuminating interview. As the new stage play, “My Brother Marvin,” continues its trek around [...]
*On April 1, 2013 “The Prince of Soul,” Marvin Gaye, R&B music legend extraordinaire, will have been dead for nearly 30 years. The world misses him terribly… still. As her new play, My Brother, MARVIN, hits the stage, Zeola ‘Sweetsie’ Gaye, Marvin Gaye’s younger sister at 67, gives EURweb publisher Lee Bailey an earful, in [...]
Six-time Grammy winning Charlie Wilson offers love in abundance on new album, ‘Love, Charlie’ *”I approached the recorded with a lot of love…to celebrate women and what this means to the male population,” said six-time Grammy Award winning Charlie Wilson about his newest album release, “Love, Charlie,” on RCA Records. Managed by P Music Group, [...]
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