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The North American tour of Roundabout Theatre Company's A Soldier's Play is well underway following previews in New Haven, Connecticut, and a December 15 opening at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where it runs through January 8, 2023. Kenny Leon returns to direct his Best Revival Tony-winning production.
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Williams has returned to his previously Tony nominated role in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out.
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The six-time Tony winner stars in the Adrienne Kennedy-penned play at the James Earl Jones Theatre.
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Ahead of her groundbreaking performance in Ohio State Murders on Broadway, the Tony-winning actor opens up about the roles she was “devastated” not to get, breaking generational trauma, and finally learning how to deal with pressure. “I’m me,” she says “In all its glorious mess, strengths, faults, weaknesses, joys, talents. I’m just me.”
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Landmark playwright Adrienne Kennedy makes her long-awaited Broadway debut with the production.
The six-time Tony winner is adding a new character to her list of tragic heroines.
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In the new Broadway production, Mays plays over 50 characters. Here is how the show’s design team helps him tell the "mind altering" tale.
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Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein, Zoë Wanamaker to star in the Sharr White play.
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The playwright behind “Ohio State Murders,” opening this month, has a theory as to why: “It’s because I’m a Black woman.”
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The initiative will support National Black Theatre, The Harlem Arts Alliance, Black Theatre Coalition, and The Classical Theatre of Harlem.
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Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is back on Broadway, currently starring in “Ohio State Murders.” With her return, she’s using her voice to amplify two important conversations.
In the latest episode of “The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal,” McDonald and Fadal chat about the history-making play — currently in previews at the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre — but also about parenting and menopause.
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The corn-themed comedy is directed by Jack O'Brien, written by Robert Horn, Brandy Clark, and Shane McAnally
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Landmark, Obie-winning playwright Adrienne Kennedy makes her long-awaited Broadway debut as her Ohio State Murders begins at Broadway's recently renamed James Earl Jones Theatre November 11, with opening night set for December 8. Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald stars in the limited run, which will continue through February 12, 2023.
McDonald, who leads the cast as Suzanne Alexander, is joined by Bryce Pinkham as Robert Hampshire, Lizan Mitchell as Mrs. Tyler/Miss Dawson/Aunt Louise, Mister Fitzgerald as David Alexander/Val, and Abigail Stephenson as Iris Ann. Rounding out the company as understudies are Christian Pedersen, Gayle Samuels, Brett Diggs, and Brooke Gardner.
Ohio State Murders is one of Kennedy's four "Alexander Plays," all of which center around the character of writer Suzanne Alexander, a pseudo stand-in for Kennedy herself. In this entry, Suzanne is invited to give a lecture at her alma mater on the topic of the themes of violence in her writing. She explains their origins by sharing a painful and disturbing story from her time as a young student at the predominately white institution when an interracial relationship led to violence.
Tony winner Kenny Leon is at the helm for the work's Broadway bow, leading a creative team that includes scenic designer Beowulf Boritt, lighting designer Allen Lee Hughes, costume designer Dede Ayite, sound designer Justin Ellington, and projection designer Jeff Sugg. Wigs, hair, and make-up design are by J. Jared Janas, and original music is by Dwight Andrews. The production has been cast by Caparelliotis Casting. Samantha Watson is production stage manager.
Kennedy's other works include Funnyhouse of a Negro (Obie Award), June and Jean in Concert (Obie Award), and Sleep Deprivation Chamber, co-authored with son Adam Kennedy (Obie Award). Ohio State Murders was commissioned by Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater Festival, where it premiered in 1992. Theatre For a New Audience staged its Off-Broadway premiere in 2007. McDonald previously starred in a Zoom reading of the work that streamed during the pandemic.
Ohio State Murders is produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Lincoln Center Theater, Rebecca Gold, Jayne Baron Sherman, and Hunter Arnold, along with Kevin Ryan/Lisa Alexander-Taylor, Marc David Levine, Sheryl Lee Ralph/Jeremy Lentz, Brad Blume, Robert Boyett, Irene Gandy, John Paterakis, Iris Smith, Willette and Manny S. Klausner, Kayla Greenspan, Franklin Theatrical Group, Marlene and Gary Cohen, William Parker Frisbie II, Ken and Rande Greiner/Alexander "Sandy" Marshall/Jame DeRoy, Jacob Soroken Porter, Concord Theatricals, John Gore Organization, James L. Nederlander, and The Shubert Organization.
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