May 18, 2013

Lonette McKee Chats About Recent Roles and ‘Sparkle’ Remake & Fail

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*Veteran actress Lonette McKee is still doing the damn thing! The Tony-nominated thespian is full of life and busy as a bee with projects closing and beginning. This past November, she starred in a Broadway play, put on a concert with bassist Michael Henderson at New York’s Aaron Davis Hall and is getting ready to [...]




People of Note: Sowa’s Red Gravy Stirs up a Tasty Brew

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 “Sowa’s Red Gravy” ends it production at the Castillo Theatre, located at 543 West 42nd Street in Manhattan this Sunday where a veritable witches’ brew was being cooked up. The talented singer, composer and actress, Lonette McKee, played the lead role of Sowa in Diane Richards’ occasionally complicated but very comical play of ancient witches, [...]




BET Nabs Common, Danny Glover Crime Drama ‘LUV’

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*”LUV,” a coming-of-age story that premiered last month at Sundance, has been acquired by the Indomina Group and BET Networks, the companies announced Saturday. Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Meagan Good, Lonette McKee and Michael Kenneth Williams star in the movie about Woody, an 11-year-old orphan who reveres his [...]