Earlier today, the 2012 Tony nominations were announced and the cast of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess walked away with six nods. Leading thespian Audra McDonald, who plays the character Bess, was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical. Her onstage counterpart, Norm Lewis, who gives a riveting performance [...]
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Check out the trailer for She’s Not Our Sister! Playwright Johnnie Johnsons’ biting, bickering and hilarious musical comedy hits the DVD and Digital Download market May 1. In this powerful play, three women experience a roller-coaster ride of emotions as they confront their father’s death, long-buried family secrets and the startling revelation of an affair that almost [...]
Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker star as Stanley and Blanche in Broadway’s revival of A Streetcar Named Desire and we’ve got a little first look. It’s is the first time the 65-year-old Tennessee Williams’ play has been produced on Broadway with an all non-white main cast. Daphne Rubin-Vega plays Blanche’s sister Stella and Wood [...]
Folks are talkin’…an all grown up Raven Symone lit up the stage in her Broadway debut of Sister Act. The 26-year-old Cosby Show and That’s So Raven star faced her latest and toughest challenge; to prove she could morph into the role of Deloris Van Cartier in the Broadway adaptation of Sister Act. And it looks [...]
NEW YORK — Blair Underwood‘s weird ride to becoming Stanley Kowalski onstage in “A Streetcar Named Desire” started four years ago with a dashed hope. The actor had wanted to play Brick in an all-black Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” but had lost the part to Terrence Howard, fresh [...]
High School Musical actor Corbin Bleu has joined the cast of the Broadway revival of Godspell at the Circle in the Square Theatre. “He’ll play Jesus in the Bible-inspired musical, picking up after [Hunter] Parrish departs next month to begin filming the next season of Showtime skein “Weeds,” reports Variety. This isn’t the 23-year-old actor’s first stint on the [...]
RAVEN-SYMONÉ (“That’s So Raven,” “The Cosby Show” and more) joins the cast of SISTER ACT beginning March 27th. Get her thoughts on the smash-hit show and what it’s like to make her Broadway debut! We think she’s perfect for this role.
NEW YORK — Raven-Symone is all grown up – and going to a convent. The former cutie from “The Cosby Show” will take over the lead part in Broadway’s hit musical “Sister Act” later this month, playing a nightclub-singer-turned-nun. The 26-year-old actress and singer says she’s in rehearsal almost every day of the week from [...]
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