For the average theatergoer, going to a production of a William Shakespeare play can either be an enlightening night of poetic culture or it can feel like homework. The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles’ production of Henry IV, helmed by Tony Award-winning Daniel Sullivan, lands somewhere in the middle of that…

Emmy-winning Scandal co-star Joe Morton is set for a series-regular role opposite Brandon Micheal Hall in CBS drama pilot God Friended Me, a light hourlong procedural from Alcatraz co-creators Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, director Marcos Siega, Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV.

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Scandal‘s seventh and final season is already in production, currently filming its second episode. Two episodes in, no character has died but none of the actors knows what’s coming down the road and how the series will end and they are being kept in the dark, learning what’s next episode-by-episode.

Still, at ABC’s…

If the only image that comes to mind at the mention of the name Dick Gregory is the skinny African American elder, his beaming visage ringed with a nimbus of white hair and beard, prepare for a restorative explosion. In one of the most astonishing performances of this or any season, Joe Morton, the stage-turned-Scandal…

Singer John Legend, who’s turning up the heat as a backer of socially relevant material across various media, announced today that Scandal star and Tony Award nominee Joe Morton will play comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory in Turn Me Loose, opening off-Broadway in May. The comedic drama by Gretchen Law…

After snagging an Emmy last year for his performance as Rowan Pope AKA Eli Pope in ABC's Scandal, Joe Morton hasn't slowed his roll. His portrayal of Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington)'s duplicitous father dominated last season, culminating in his imprisonment at his daughter's hand. Of playing TV's favorite “bad dad,&#8221…

Last year Kerry Washington and Don Cheadle made Emmy history as two African American actors breaking through the lead acting categories at the same time with nominations.  Not only did they both earn nominations again this year, but a total of 11 Black actors and actresses were nominated across all acting categories…