Heather Headley

  Tony award winner Heather Headley is playing Shug Avery in the hit Broadway play The Color Purple, also starring Danielle Brooks and Cynthia Erivo. She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about returning to the stage and announces a contest that allows one lucky fan to attend the show with the TJMS’ Sybil Wilkes. On her […]

  Tony and Grammy award winner Heather Headley stars in Broadway’s The Color Purple as Shug Avery (replacing Jennifer Hudson) Tuesday, May 10th. She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the work it takes to make a production of this magnitude successful and the hilarious reason why Shug Avery may sound a little […]

I realized recently that Aida and I are sisters in spirit. There is something in her that I already had in me when I auditioned for the role. But I had no idea until days before our first performance how closely tethered together our souls really are. How could I conclude such a thing about […]

After providing the vocals for Lifetime’s “Whitney” biopic earlier this year, Grammy-nominee Deborah Cox has been tapped to lead a North American tour of “The Bodyguard,” a stage musical based on the 1992 movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. It opened in London in 2012 starring Heather Headley to mixed reviews. The musical, directed […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony and Grammy winner Heather Headley has been lured back onstage to play a vengeful witch in a fairy tale musical in St. Louis. Mike Isaacson, the artistic director and executive producer of the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis, said Headley will play the Witch in their production of “Into […]