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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 [...]
*Audra McDonald has been hosting this season’s “Live From Lincoln Center” series on PBS, but she’s set to command center stage next month for the show’s season finale. The special, titled “Audra McDonald In Concert: Go Back Home,” will see the “Private Practice” star and five-time Tony Award winner performing a gala concert at Lincoln [...]
*Tony Award-winning musical Memphis is saying farewell to Broadway. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The show – inspired by late radio legend Dewey Phillips, one of the first white disc jockeys to broadcast soul music in the 1950s – will have its final curtain call on Aug. 5, following 30 preview performances and 1,166 regular [...]
*If you had tickets to specifically see Audra McDonald in Broadway’s “The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess,” you’re out of luck – at least for the next two weeks. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The actress, who won a Tony Award this month for her role as Bess, is temporarily stepping down from the show while [...]
*Sunday night, Audra McDonald made history after winning her 5th Tony Award. That ranks the amazing actress as the first black woman with that many Tony’s. Aside from that, she won the Best Actress award for her performance as “Bess” in “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.” [LIKE US ON FACEBOOK] While many don’t know [...]
*Critical and box-office darling “The Book of Mormon” won a leading nine trophies at the Tony Awards last night, including best musical, and best featured actress in a musical for star Nikki M. James. “I didn’t expect to be standing here tonight and tried to write a speech and I feel silly,” James said in [...]
*Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Viola Davis, Samuel L. Jackson and James Earl Jones were all announced as presenters during the June 12th Tony Award ceremony honoring Broadway’s best. Also slated to hit the stage at the Beacon Theater are Daniel Radcliffe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer, Vanessa Redgrave and Harry Connick, Jr. Emmy winner [...]
*Black pride was on display at the American Theatre Wing’s 64th Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards that were broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS on Sunday, June 13, 2010. Broadway’s biggest and starriest night marked the first time in Tony Award history that Black performers won the top acting awards during the [...]
*”Fences,” a revival of August Wilson’s drama about family, won for best revival of a play at Sunday’s 2010 Tony Awards, while its two stars, Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, won for best actors in a play. The broadcast was packed with musical performances from nominated shows, including “Memphis,” the rhythm ‘n’ blues musical set [...]
*The Broadway musical Fela!, which just 11 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical, is set to launch a nationwide tour in addition to its scheduled European premiere in the fall. Playbill.com caught up with Bill T. Jones, who conceived, directed, choreographed and co-authored the book to the biographical musical about Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti, [...]
“Fences” has only been open a week, and already its stars Denzel Washington and Viola Davis have received Tony nominations Tuesday for their leading roles, two of ten announced Tuesday for the August Wilson play. “Fela!” nominated for best musical, tied with “La Cage aux Folles” for a leading 11 nominations, while actress Lillias White [...]
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