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*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 [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people [...]
*Debbie Allen is not only returning to “Grey’s Anatomy” in the fall, she’ll be in the director’s chair for the third episode, according to TV Guide. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Allen plays Jackson Avery’s (Jesse Williams) mother Catherine on the ABC drama (pictured above), which returns for its ninth season on Thursday, Sept. 27 [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE Every good thought you think is contributing its [...]
*After directing three episodes of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” in the past year, Debbie Allen will move in front of the camera to play the mother of Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams), a show rep tells TVGuide.com. The “Fame” alum will play Catherine Avery in the fifth episode of the new season. Her arrival will shed some [...]
*All Denzel Washington wanted to do was see one of his favorite groups perform. He and other devotees of the Delfonics, including Debbie Allen and her sister Phylicia Rashad, came out to a club in Los Angeles recently where the legendary group was on a bill with other crooners from the era. Washington arrived for [...]
*“Its gumbo…it’s the best gumbo you’ll ever taste,” said Golden Globe/Emmy Award winning Debbie Allen (“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “West Side Story”) about The Pasadena Playhouse production of “Twist – An American Musical,” which she directs and choreographs. “I don’t want to blow it for you I want you to come see it [...]
*The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Stephen Eich, Executive Director) announced that full casting is complete for the west coast premiere of the new musical TWIST – An American Musical by William F. Brown and Tina Tippit (book), Tena Clark (lyrics and music) and Gary Prim (music). Golden Globe and multi-Emmy Award-winner Debbie [...]
*First Lady Michelle Obama addressed 550 Spelman College graduates Sunday in College Park, encouraging the young women to help others, overcome obstacles and “do big things.” [Scroll down to watch speech in its entirety.] Obama delivered her keynote speech to 9,000 people in the ballroom of the Georgia International Convention Center, saluting the graduating class [...]
*Judith Jamison, who, after 21 years at the helm is stepping down as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, along with her artistic director designate, Robert Battle, recently attended a fundraising gala to celebrate the dance company. The Center Dance Arts (CDA) and the Music Center held the event at the historic [...]
*The last time we spoke to the multi-talented Jasmine Guy she talked about what she’s been up to. Now we continue on with that conversation, but this time she deals with the unexpected legacy of ‘A Different World,’ the Cosby created college comedy that’s still running in syndication today. “When you’re in it you really [...]
*LOS ANGELES — The lights have barely dimmed on Alliance Theater’s production of Twist, Debbie Allen’s New Orleans 1928 rendition of the Charles Dickens’ classic, and the director/choreographer has already announced the Premier of The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker, her hilarious and culturally rich take on the perennial holiday classic. The show will run at UCLA’s [...]
*Will Smith and Debbie Allen are among the producers developing a film about modern-day explorer and African-American neuroscience professor Dr. S. Allen Counter. According to Variety, Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz of Overbrook Entertainment are teaming with Allen for the Sony feature, with Farhad Safinia (“Apocalypto”) tapped to pen the script. Smith, who’s worked [...]
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