Alicia Keys is following Jay-Z and Will Smith into the world of Broadway producers. Keys, whose hits include “Fallin'” and “A Woman’s Worth,” will help produce Lydia R. Diamond’s play “Stick Fly” this fall. “Stick Fly” is a contemporary comedy about an affluent black family whose insecurities gradually reveal themselves during a vacation to Martha’s […]
Angela Bassett has signed on to star opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway production of the play “The Mountaintop, starting this fall.” Producers announced that Bassett will play the mysterious woman who visits the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in playwright Katori Hall’s re-imagining of the night before […]
Chris Rock recently stated that “I wanted to do something in New York,” right across the bridge from the New Jersey home he shares with his wife, Malaak, and daughters, Lola, 9, and Zahra, 7. USA Today reports that despite being the family man, the title of the new Broadway play that marks comedian and […]
The legendary Pearl Mae Bailey was born in Southampton County, Virginia and raised in the Bloodfields neighborhood of Newport News. As a young child Baily and her brother would sing and dance for their parents Rev. Joseph and Ella Mae Bailey, leaving no doubt that entertainment would be apart of their future. Bailey made her […]
Via: www.newsone.com // From the NY Times: When Denzel Washington talks about challenging death to a wrestling match, you suddenly sense that everything’s going to be all right. Not for Troy Maxson, the character portrayed by Mr. Washington in the vibrantly acted Broadway revival of August Wilson’s “Fences,” which opened on Monday night at the […]
From NYTimes.com: Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have signed on as producers of the new Broadway musical “Fela!” and will attend the show’s opening night at the Eugene O’Neill Theater next Monday, Nov. 23, a publicist for the production said. “Fela!” represents the first time that Jay-Z and the Smiths have joined a […]
