Black Tony winners

We've never seen Viola Davis in a role like this.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bertolt Brecht’s epic play “Mother Courage and Her Children” may be about the horrors of war, but a new off-Broadway production is revealing real conflict offstage, too. Tony Award-winning actress Tonya Pinkins said she will abruptly leave the Classic Stage Company’s revival early next month, claiming the part has been “neutered,” […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway-goers this fall will get a special treat — James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson sharing the same stage again. Producers said Wednesday that the Tony Award-winners will star in a revival of D.L. Coburn’s “The Gin Game” at the Golden Theatre. Previews start Sept. 21. In the play, an elderly […]

Critically claimed actor and dancer, Geoffrey Holder,  died at 84 from Pneumonia on Sunday. A resident at the Lillian Booth Actors Home of The Actors Fund in Englewood, New Jersey., Holder’s staggering 6’6″ frame was seen on television in various commercials and films such as ‘Doctor Dolittle’ and the musical adaptation of ‘Annie’. The larger than life […]

Actress Cicely Tyson will receive an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from the American Film Insitute, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress, who won a Tony Award last year for her work on the Broadway stage in the play The Trip to Bountiful will be honored for her “contribution of distinction to the art […]