Month: March 2016
THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with Your Favorite Broadway Stars- THE COLOR PURPLE’s Patrice Covington~article from BroadwayWorld.com
Welcome to THE FRIDAY SIX: Q&As with your favorite Broadway stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater? Their dream roles? Their Broadway crushes? Read on! In this week’s edition, we caught up withPatrice Covington, who…
CYNTHIA ERIVO: BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE~article from Broadway StyleGuide
Cynthia Erivo keeps following in Whoopi Goldberg’s footsteps. One of the British actress’s “first big jobs” was playing Deloris Van Cartier in the UK tour of, and now, she’s making her Broadway debut as Celie Harris in the TheColor Purple—both roles…
The Color Purple~article from This Week In New York
The Color Purple achieves the extremely rare, elusive grand slam with its stirring new Broadway revival. Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her 1982 novel about a horribly abused and mistreated girl in the Depression-era…
Forest Whitaker makes a moving Broadway debut in ‘Hughie’~article from USA Today
NEW YORK — Close your eyes and just listen, and you’ll never recognize the Oscar-winning actor now making his Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre. Never mind that Forest Whitaker’s distinctly textured baritone has added authority and nuance to a range of complex…
Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls~article from The New York Times
The dim and cavernous hotel lobby is, as one of its two inhabitants puts it, “about as homey as the morgue.” But for Erie Smith, the fidgety man who comes up with that desolate description, this morgue is the only…
Live With Kelly & Michael~Forest Whitaker~ Aol.On
Watch Kelly & Michael interview with Forest Whitaker…see more http://on.aol.com/video/live-with-kelly-and-michael-forest-whitaker-519533702
Hey, Sport! Know Your Old New York Slang~article from The New York Times
A Broadway revival of a little-known Eugene O’Neill play, “Hughie,”features some choice slang that is likely to be unfamiliar to contemporary audiences — most of them words that O’Neill heard on the streets of New York in the late-19th and early-20th…