Review: Broadway’s ‘Funny Girl’ a Beanie Feldstein triumph
April 25, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — When Broadway's revival of “Funny Girl” begins, star Beanie Feldstein sits in a Broadway dressing room, getting ready to go on. She wonders nervously to her assistant: "You ever feel like there’s someone watching from the shadows?"
Winfrey picks Viola Davis memoir for her book club
April 21, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Viola Davis' latest honor is not for her acting, but for her writing. The Oscar winner's upcoming memoir, “Finding Me,” is Oprah Winfrey's new book club pick.
“Finding Me,” which comes out next Tuesday, traces Davis' journey from what she has called a “crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island” to acclaim for her work on stage and screen.
Broadway theater will be renamed after James Earl Jones
March 2, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The Shubert Organization's Cort Theatre on Broadway will be renamed after James Earl Jones, fulfilling a promise by the theater giant to honor a Black artist in such a way.
The James Earl Jones Theatre renaming is “in recognition of Mr.
Broadway theaters attack virus: ‘This is absolutely doable’
August 27, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — There's a woman who has seen the play “Pass Over” multiple times in just a few days. She sat with the audience one night, returned another day to stand at the back of the theater and once stayed backstage for an entire performance.
Broadway theaters attack virus: ‘This is absolutely doable’
August 27, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — There's a woman who has seen the play “Pass Over” multiple times in just a few days. She sat with the audience one night, returned another day to stand at the back of the theater and once stayed backstage for an entire performance.
The searing, timely play ‘Pass Over’ leads Broadway’s return
August 3, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Danya Taymor was jazzed. It was late July and the theater director had just cracked open the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway after months of stillness and silence.
She soaked it all in, checking out the stage and tweaking her plans.
The searing, timely play ‘Pass Over’ leads Broadway’s return
August 3, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Danya Taymor was jazzed. It was late July and the theater director had just cracked open the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway after months of stillness and silence.
She soaked it all in, checking out the stage and tweaking her plans.
Viola Davis memoir ‘Finding Me’ scheduled for next April
July 20, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Viola Davis is working on a memoir that she says will be “straight, no chaser.”
HarperOne will release Davis' “Finding Me” on April 19, 2022. Davis traces her rise from growing up in poverty and family violence in Rhode Island to becoming one of the world's most acclaimed actors.
‘Pass Over’ jumps ahead of pack to welcome Broadway patrons
June 1, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A play about young Black men trapped on a street corner has positioned itself as the first Broadway show audiences can watch live when the Great White Way restarts.
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's “Pass Over” will begin performances at the August Wilson Theatre on Aug.
‘Ma Rainey,’ ‘Minari’ and Boseman lead SAG nominations
February 4, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Chadwick Boseman received two posthumous nominations from the Full Coverage: Entertainment
‘Soul,’ ‘Ma Rainey’s’ among AFI’s top 10 films of the year
January 25, 2021 GMTThe American Film Institute on Monday announced its top 10 films of the year, including Pixar’s jazz themed “Soul” and two of Chadwick Boseman’s final films: the August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and Spike Lee’s Vietnam drama “Da 5 Bloods,” both of which are Netflix films...
In ‘Ma Rainey,’ channeling the blues of August Wilson
December 16, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Like many of those involved in the making of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” it’s not easy for Viola Davis to summarize what playwright August Wilson has meant to her except to answer, “Everything...
Review: ‘Ma Rainey’ is Boseman’s final, perhaps finest gift
November 24, 2020 GMTChadwick Boseman surges onto the screen as fast-talking trumpeter Levee in NEW YORK (AP) — The University of Pittsburgh has acquired the archive of the late playwright and Pittsburgh native son August Wilson, a trove that contains recordings, letters, artwork, poetry, unpublished work and notebooks...The University of Pittsburgh acquires August Wilson trove
October 29, 2020 GMT
Netflix previews ‘Ma Rainey’ and Boseman’s final performance
October 20, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfe's August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” showcasing Chadwick Boseman's final performance opposite Viola Davis' powerhouse blues singer...
Shock, grief, and gratitude after death of Chadwick Boseman
August 29, 2020 GMT“He was a gentle soul and a brilliant artist, who will stay with us for eternity through his iconic performances over his short yet illustrious career...
2019 Breakthrough Entertainer: A star-making year for Majors
December 19, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — How is a great actor made? For Jonathan Majors, the 30-year-old breakout star of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” it started in drama school...
What’s on Houston stages this weekend.
May 2, 2018 GMTTheater“The Great American Trailer Park Musical”Best-selling raunchy musical. Presented by Stages Repertory Theatre. 8 p.m. Friday, 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, through July 22; $25-$73; 3201 Allen Parkway; 713-527-0123, stagestheatre.com.“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”August Wilson’s classic.
Oscars change their tune with ‘La La Land,’ diverse nominees
January 24, 2017 GMTHistory was made across Tuesday's 89th annual Academy Awards nominations, where the retro musical "La La Land" reaped a record-tying 14 nominations and a wave of African-American films, led by the luminous coming-of-age portrait "Moonlight," resoundingly toppled two straight years of "so white" Oscars...