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*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 [...]
*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) [...]
*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 [...]
*The Broadway production of Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, which was scheduled to begin previews March 31 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, will now do so March 30, one day earlier than originally announced, reports Playbill. The cast will feature Emmy winner Cicely Tyson, Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr., Emmy Award nominee Vanessa [...]
*Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams and Condola Rashad have signed on to join Cicely Tyson in the Broadway revival of The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote’s play about an elderly woman’s determination to make one final journey back to her childhood home in small-town Texas. Read: Cicely Tyson Returning to Broadway in her Dream [...]
*Lifetime has announced that is all-black remake of “Steel Magnolias,” led by Queen Latifah and Phylicia Rashad, will debut on the network Sunday, Oct. 7, at 9 p.m. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The adaptation of the 1989 film centers on the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Adepero Oduye, Condola Rashad, Jill [...]
*A two-minute preview of Lifetime’s “Steel Magnolias” remake featuring an African American cast hit the Internet this week. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The original 1989 feature film, which follows the friendship of six women in Louisiana, starred Sally Field, Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts. Queen Latifah stars and executive produces the Lifetime remake. She’s joined [...]
*Queen Latifah has just been added to the star-studded cast of Lifetime’s all-black remake of “Steel Magnolias.” She’ll play M’Lynn, the character portrayed by Sally Field in the 1989 feature film of the same name. Condola Rashad will play her diabetes-stricken daughter, Shelby, played previously by Julia Roberts, and Rashad’s mother Phylicia will take on [...]
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