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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 [...]
*Obie and Lilly Award winner and first-time Tony nominee Pam MacKinnon is one of the rising star directors on Broadway. She directed the Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway play “Clybourne Park,” for which she received a Tony nomination for Best Direction of a Play. “Clybourne Park” received a total of four Tony Award nominations including Best Play, [...]
*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. [...]
The 2012 Tony Award Nominations were announced today in New York City by Emmy winning-actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe winning-actor, Jim Parson. “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” with an African-American cast, receives a total of ten nominations, more than any other play or musical except the musical “Once,” which received eleven nominations. [...]
*Multiple award-winning television and film star Blair Underwood, a nominee for this year’s Drama League Award, and Nicole Ari Parker, a 2012 Outer Critics Circle nominee make stunning and powerful Broadway debuts in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama and American classic, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” at the Broadhurst Theatre for a limited sixteen week engagement. [...]
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 [...]
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