Norwood,
Ferris Bueller s Day Off and
What s Love Got to Do with It. She is the founder of Lafayette Players and received the National Black Theatre Festival Living Legend Award, the Paul Robeson Pioneer Award and the NAACP Image Award for Theatre Excellence in recognition of her work. Capers died at the age of 78 in 2004.
Ralph on Capers: Aunt Virginia Capers was a mentor and blessing to me from the moment I first met her as a 19-year-old winner of
Glamour Magazine’s Top Ten College Women in America. She had just won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance as the stern but loving matriarch, Lena Younger, in
Inherit the Wind, King Lear, No Man’s Land, Othello and
J.B. His other Broadway credits included
The Good Doctor, Arturo Ui, Night of the Auk, The Lark and
The Starcross Story. A film version of Plummer in
Barrymore was released in 2011.
Though he is celebrated for playing Captain Von Trapp in
The Sound of Music, he won an Academy Award in 2011 for his performance in
Beginners and earned nominations for
The Last Station and
All the Money in the World. His numerous other notable film credits include
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Syriana, Dolores Claiborne, Malcolm X, The Man Who Would be King, Waterloo and many more.
by Broadway.com Staff • Jan 28, 2021
Legendary performer Cicely Tyson has died at the age of 96. The Tony and Emmy winner most recently appeared on Broadway in a revival of
The Gin Game opposite James Earl Jones in 2015.
Variety reports that her death was confirmed by her manager Larry Thompson. I have managed Miss Tyson’s career for over 40 years, and each year was a privilege and blessing,” he said in a statement. “Cicely thought of her new memoir as a Christmas tree decorated with all the ornaments of her personal and professional life. Today she placed the last ornament a star, on top of the tree.” Her memoir,
The latest episode of
Show People, available now on Broadway.com, features Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek chatting with Tony winner Tonya Pinkins. Pinkins has always been creative she started writing a novel in first grade. Her Broadway resume is full of forward-thinking shows like
Merrily We Roll Along, Jelly s Last Jam, The Wild Party, Caroline, or Change, Radio Golf and more. It showcases her commitment to growing as an artist. As a Gemini, I get bored too easily, she said. I don t want to repeat what I did before.
Gregory Hines & Tonya Pinkins in
Jelly s Last Jam (Photo: Martha Swope)
Pinkins has spent much of 2020 in South Korea, putting the finishing touches on