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*Making her Broadway debut as Oda Mae Brown in “Ghost: The Musical,” 25 year old Da’Vine Joy Randolph, is making a splash on the Great White Way. A first-time Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical, she is also nominated for an Outer Critics Cirle Award [...]
*Multiple award-winning producer, playwright, author, media personality and philanthropist, Vy Higgenson, is a proud Harlemite and New Yorker. Vy is best-known as a co-creator, producer and director of the longest-running black off-Broadway musical, “Mama, I Want to Sing,” and its subsequent brand extensions: “Mama, I Want to Sing: Part II,” “Born to Sing: Mama 3,” [...]
*On a quiet and rainy Monday evening in New York City’s theatre district, the sixth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition National Finals was held at the August Wilson Theatre, where 21 finalists had an opportunity to perform on a Broadway stage. The national competition was presented and produced by Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company [...]
*In the era of brand development and brand extensions, it’s no surprise that the producers of “Ghost The Musical” desired to create a production for the theatre. The movie, “Ghost,” released in 1990 starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, was a huge commercial success and grossed nearly a billion dollars in worldwide sales. [...]
Four Out of Five Stars Timeless themes of racism, classism and sexism poignantly displayed on the Great White Way *The critically-acclaimed “Clybourne Park,” winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play (London), debuts on Broadway with a sixteen week limited engagement. “Clybourne Park” is considered [...]
*Aretha Franklin released a statement through a different publicity firm on Thursday to clear up some inaccuracies regarding the beating of her son Monday night at a Detroit gas station. Franklin states that Eddie Franklin, 52, underwent surgery after arriving at a hospital emergency room early Tuesday morning, and that his jaw was wired shut. [...]
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