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Brent Lang Executive Editor Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon will bring Grover’s Corners back to Broadway. The acclaimed director of “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch,” will tackle Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” The show is scheduled to open in the fall of 2024. This will be the first major Broadway revival of the classic play in more than 20 years, the last being a 2002 production that featured Paul Newman.

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‘Downstate’, Broadway’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Take New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards

Bruce Norris’s Downstate and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt were named this season’s Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle today.

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Broadway’s ‘Ohio State Murders’ Starring Audra McDonald Announces Closing

Ohio State Murders, the play starring Audra McDonald that made history by being the first Broadway production of acclaimed 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy, will play its final performance on Sunday, January 15.

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‘Ohio State Murders’ Broadway Review: Audra McDonald As A Woman Stalked By The Past

Many decades after her brilliant and unsettling plays became seen Off Broadway, at regional theaters or, sometimes, not at all, the great playwright Adrienne Kennedy is making her Broadway debut tonight when her 1992 work Ohio State Murders opens as the inaugural production at the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre.

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Audra McDonald on the Broadway Roles She Was ‘Devastated’ She Didn't Get

Ohio State Murders, in which she is on stage for the entirety of the 75-minute play. The very next day, she will perform to a sold-out Carnegie Hall for a solo concert. And that’s all after she drops her six-year-old daughter off at the school bus. “To be honest, ‘me time’ is kind of nonexistent right now,” she says from her New York home.

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Why the Creators of Broadway’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ Think the Play Has a Superpower

Gordon Cox Theater Editor How is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play like a Marvel superhero? Ask Suzan-Lori Parks, the acclaimed writer whose 2001 outing “Topdog/Underdog” was her first show to arrive on Broadway after she’d spent years turning heads downtown with smaller-scale work. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:

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Bryce Pinkham, Lizan Mitchell Join Audra McDonald In Broadway’s ‘Ohio State Murders’

Additional casting and the full creative team for the Broadway premiere of Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders were announced today, with Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) and Lizan Mitchell (Cullud Wattah) joining previously announced star Audra McDonald.

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Broadway’s Cort Theatre Renamed in Honor of James Earl Jones

Michael Appler In 1958, an unknown actor spoke just one line from the stage of the Cort Theatre on Broadway: “Mrs. Roosevelt, supper is served.” Then, a 27-year old James Earl Jones could barely make it through his five words. His stutter had yet to smooth into a defining voice. On Monday afternoon, in a ceremony attended by Samuel L. Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Debbie Allen and Mayor Eric Adams, that same theater was rededicated in honor of the now 91 year-old actor. “I spoke my first line ever on Broadway in this theater,” Jones said in a video played during the ceremony, taped when Jones and his family toured the renovated theater privately. “I was a kid,” he said from the stage, looking out to an empty audience.

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Audra McDonald Sets Broadway Return In Adrienne Kennedy’s ‘Ohio State Murders’; Kenny Leon Will Direct

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.

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Audra McDonald Returns to Broadway in ‘Ohio State Murders’

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAudra McDonald, the undisputed queen of live theater, will return to Broadway in “Ohio State Murders,” a new play by Adrienne Kennedy.The show, which will look at the destructiveness and corrosiveness of racism in this country, will be directed by Kenny Leon, the architect of the recent acclaimed revivals of “Fences” and “A Soldier’s Play.” Despite the fact that Kennedy has been working at the top of her game for decades, having written the likes of “Funnyhouse of a Negro” and “Sleep Deprivation Chamber” while winning Obie Awards, this marks her Broadway debut at the age of 90.“I am so thrilled.

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him. The semi-autobiographical drama Sleep Deprivation Chamber is as painfully relevant today as it was when it won the Obie Award for Best New American Play nearly 25 years ago.

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Kenny Leon Directing Broadway Revival of Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’

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