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Christopher Demos-Brown’s Broadway play American Son starring Kerry Washington is heading to Netflix. The critically-acclaimed production will be adapted for the streaming giant. Washington, who will reprise her role along with Steven Pasquale and others from the original Broadway staging, made the announcement Monday…

The Actors Fund named Warren Beatty, Chita Rivera, Uma Thurman and film/theater director Kenny Leon (currently on Broadway with his new production of Children of a Lesser God), as its 2018 Medal of Honor recipients. The awards will be handed out at the Fund’s annual gala on Monday, May 14. Brian Stokes Mitchell…

Anthony Edwards (ER, Top Gun) will make his Broadway debut alongside Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff in the spring revival of Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God. Edwards will play Mr. Franklin. Tony winner Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun, Holler If Ya Hear Me) is directing Performances are slated to begin March…

Joshua Jackson is moving to Broadway with Children Of A Lesser God, the first Main Stem revival of the Tony Award-winning Mark Medoff play since its 1980 premiere. Jackson, co-star and fellow newcomer Lauren Ridloff and director Kenny Leon will follow the production they originally mounted at the Berkshire Theater…

It’s a good bet that Robert Greenblatt had never shared a dais with Julius “Dr. J” Erving. Yet there they were in New York this week, the NBC Entertainment chairman and the NBA Hall of Famer, the duke of dunk, raising a glass to director Kenny Leon at the Mr. Abbott Awards. Leon may seem a little young, at 61, to be…

Fox is developing Cotton Club, a soapy music series based in the hottest club in Harlem in the Roaring ’20s. It comes from former Empire co-executive producer Ayanna Floyd, who serves as showrunner; Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of NBC’s live musical franchise; Broadway director Kenny Leon; and music executive…

Paul Tazewell, costume designer for The Wiz Live!, is at the top of his game. Fresh off a Tony win for his work on Hamilton, Tazewell says he feels as though he's "on a cloud" right now. Hamilton's massive success has been overwhelming, although Tazewell says he had a real sense of its promise from the very first…

A fine but wayward cast led by Ed Harris and Amy Madigan makes an almost unwatchable mess of Sam Shepard’s ferocious drama Buried Child. I can report this with some confidence not only because any revival of this play comes with the imprimatur of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, but because images from both the original Off Br…

Even before taking over its just-purchased Broadway flagship, the Helen Hayes Theatre, the estimable off-Broadway company Second Stage has lined up major talent for its upcoming 37th season, with help from nonprofit friends up Boston way. Diane Paulus (<a title="Kelsey Grammer Hooks The Crowd In 'Peter Pan' Prequel…