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Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway in Ohio State Murders by Adrienne Kennedy, the acclaimed playwright who will be making her Broadway debut at age 90. Kenny Leon will direct. Kennedy, whose plays over the last six decades have included such Off Broadway Obie Award winners as Funnyhouse of a Ne…

Kenny Leon, director of A Soldier’s Play, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, expanded backstage on his acceptance-speech call for greater diversity in the theater. “We’ve been talking about making changes on Broadway,” he said, acknowledging the “reset” prompted by Covid-19 and nationwide protests…

UPDATED,  The 2022 Broadway revival of Melvin Van Peebles’ groundbreaking 1971 musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death will go on as planned, producers — including the late filmmaker’s son Mario Van Peebles — confirmed today. Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery The previously announced…

Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon will join Roundabout Theatre Company’s artistic leadership team as Senior Resident Director next month. The director, most recently of Roundabout’s Tony-nominated A Soldier’s Play, is expected to help develop and nurture the careers of young BIPOC directors and play a key part in…

EXCLUSIVE: Another step is being taken in Broadway’s efforts to confront its own systemic racism: Broadway & Beyond, founded by stage and production managers of Hadestown, Frozen and Aladdin, has scheduled its first event to encourage and support young or aspiring stage managers of color. Tony Award-winning director Ke…

The upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997. Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores! productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black…

After Tony-winning director Kenny Leon posted a snippet of footage of Chadwick Boseman’s duet with Christopher Jackson (who played George Washington in the original cast of Hamilton), there has been revived interest in Holler If Ya Hear Me, the musical inspired by the words and music of the late artist Tupac Shakur…

Lifetime has extended its partnership with journalist Robin Roberts for four new movies and they are about to fuel the soul with Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story. The movie will star Tony Award nominee, SAG and Grammy Award-winning actress Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black, Broadway’s The Color…

EXCLUSIVE: In the first look at Netflix’s adaptation of the critically acclaimed Broadway American Son play by Christopher Demos-Brown, star and executive producer Kerry Washington talks about just how relevant the narrative and how it has been like working on a project that dissects unconscious bias and race and how…

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…