post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beginning in April 2007, the Fair Housing Partnership of Greater Pittsburgh conducted a year-long test of local mortgage lenders to see if there was racial discrimination in lending and if so, how it was being expressed. Yesterday, they reported their results. Tim Grant wrote the story ; I think his last line is a killer. Sounds like the banker at the end of Eddie Murphy's classic, " White Like...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
James Earl Jones has been breaking down barriers since the 1950s. As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex – and why his stutter was his salvation The septuagenarian walking slowly through the Novello theatre in London looks like an archetypal American tourist. Tall and wide, he wears a puffy gilet that makes him...
Gratuitous Violins (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This week, BroadwaySpace released its list of "30 under 30: Broadway's hottest young stars." There are some great names, talented actors whose performances I've really enjoyed. Then there are others who may be perfectly fine but I'm not sure they belong on a list of "Broadway's most remarkable and noteworthy performers under the age of 30." Hey, I realize these things are subjective....
Seattle City (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
SEATTLE— LIKE a reminder of theater’s past, the face of the playwright August Wilson stares out from a gleaming glass door set in a 12-foot ...
Seattle City (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Jerry Manning, Seattle Repertory Theater's producing artistic director, standing by a photo of the playwright August Wilson, set in a 12-foot steel portal at the ...
Critic-O-Meter (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
GRADE: B+ By Tarell Alvin McCraney. Part 1 directed by Tina Landau. Part 2 directed by Robert O'Hara. The Public Theater. Through Dec. 13. Young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has his share of supporters and detractors. Some critics call him the next August Wilson, while others, though recognizing his talent and potential, find his writing in his trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays, to be self-indulgent....
The Stage (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington will return to the Broadway stage in a revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences.
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Denzel Washington is revisiting The Great White Way! Denzel will be starring in Fences, a Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play written by August Wilson. The Scott Rudin and Carole Shorenstein Hays-produced Fences is expected to open in April and run all the way through July at a yet to be determined theater. Thoughts'?? [...]
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Denzel Washington plans to return to the New York stage next spring in a revival of August Wilson's ''Fences.''
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Filed under: Movies , News , Theater , Celeb Updates Denzel Washington Denzel Washington is returning to the Great White Way. The two-time Oscar winning actor will play the lead role in a revival of August Wilson 's 'Fences.' Producers Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott Rudin told the Associated Press that the play will open in April at a theater to be announced. The production will be directed by...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
DENZEL Washington is to return to Broadway in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson play Fences . The actor will play Maxson family patriarch Troy in a role that was originated by James Earl Jones. He will begin rehearsing in February for an April opening, before toplining the production for 14-weeks through to mid-July 2010. Washington has previously played Brutus in a Broadway adaptation...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Do Fence Him In: Denzel Washington and that handsome mug of his will hit Broadway next April in a revival of Fences , August Wilson 's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Washington will play Troy Maxson, a baseball player turned garbage man and the patriarch of a working class black family in Pittsburgh. Here's hoping his "ungenerous, unkind and knowingly hurtful" personality goes over better...
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Get ready for another Hollywood star on Broadway! According to the New York Times, that two-time Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington, will return to the New York theatre stage next spring in a revival of August Wilson’s Fences. Producers Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott Rudin say the play will open in April. The production will be directed [...]
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The current Broadway season is starting to look like an Academy Awards telecast. The latest star to lend a marquee name to the Great White Way is Denzel Washington, who will perform in a revival of August Wilson's drama "Fences,"...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Film News: Actor returns to Broadway in Wilson revival -- Denzel Washington will return to Broadway in a revival of "Fences," the Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson play.
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