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How Joyce DiDonato's childhood inspired her role in 'Amahl and the Night Visitors'

Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is coming to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater

The Independent UK

Tom Hanks to star in his own time travel romance off-Broadway show

This isn’t the first story that Hanks has written for the stage

The Independent UK

Tom Hanks to co-write and star in off-Broadway play

The Oscar-winning actor will bring The World of Tomorrow to the Shed in New York later this year

The Guardian - US

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Brian Cox lambasts ticket prices for Denzel Washington’s Othello: ‘It’s not right’

The Succession star also claimed he’d heard Washington’s co-star Jake Gyllenhaal ‘is not particularly wonderful’

The Independent UK

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal leave critics underwhelmed in Broadway Shakespeare adaptation

Hollywood stars lead Broadway’s 15-week revival of ‘Othello’

The Independent UK

Home review – a 70s play returns to Broadway with mixed results

A hit-and-miss coming-of-age tale, from late playwright Samm-Art Williams, covers aspects of the Black experience with detail but uneven direction distracts

The Guardian - US

Denzel Washington And Jake Gyllenhaal To Star In Othello

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to star in Broadway's Othello, directed by Kenny Leon. A captivating Shakespearean experience awaits in spring 2025.

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II earns a Tony Award nomination for 'Topdog/Underdog'

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II first encountered the play “Topdog/Underdog” in college as a favor for a student director who needed actors for a showcase

The Independent UK

More than 40 years on, ‘A Soldier’s Play’ is profoundly and chillingly relevant

Charles Fuller’s writing is tightly structured but also deeply nuanced, and the ensemble work here could not be better, with an array of fully realized performances.

Chicago Sun-Times

For Norm Lewis, ‘A Soldier’s Play’ speaks a relevant and powerful truth

“It’s about the things we’ll truly fight for — and need to fight for — as a country, if we want to be a country that is respected,” Lewis says of the play, written more than 40 years ago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: Audra McDonald dives deep in shocking ‘Ohio State Murders’ on Broadway

NEW YORK — Imagine you’re a celebrity writer invited to speak by your alma mater, where you had a mostly miserable time, thanks to the racism of the time and place. Imagine further that the person inviting you asks you to talk about why you have so much violent imagery…

Chicago Tribune

Ohio State Murders review – Audra McDonald soars in an unsteady mystery

The Broadway debut of 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy provides its captivating lead star with stellar moments but lacks insight

The Guardian - US

Review: Brothers bite hard in powerhouse ‘Topdog/Underdog’ on Broadway

NEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” is a phenomenal two-brother drama, every bit as intense and rich as anything by Sam Shepard and, frankly, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century. And on Broadway, the director Kenny Leon has put this 2001 masterpiece…

Chicago Tribune

Topdog/Underdog review – Corey Hawkins triumphs in Suzan Lori-Parks revival

The actor makes a searing impact alongside an excellent Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the surreal Pulitzer prize-winning play about two brothers struggling to get by in America

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Charles Fuller, author of Pulitzer prize-winning ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ dies at 83

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller died of natural causes on Monday at age 83.

The Independent UK

Broadway theater to be renamed in honor of James Earl Jones

The newly restored Cort Theatre on Broadway will be renamed after James Earl Jones on Monday, becoming the second theater on the Great White Way named after a Black artist

Tribune News Service

Audra McDonald returns to Broadway in 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy’s first Broadway production, ‘Ohio State Murders’

NEW YORK — Audra McDonald is bringing the drama with her return to The Great White Way this fall.

Chicago Tribune

The myth of LeBron James, if not the man himself, will soon be on stage in Chicago with 'King James'

CHICAGO — Ask most directors if their world-premiere Chicago show might have a chance at Broadway and they’ll demur. “Just doing it for here,” they’ll say, or some version of how such bridges should not yet be crossed.

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