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05.03.2024 / 21:17

Artists First Signs ‘Julia’ Actress Brittany Bradford, Multi-Hyphenate Amanda McCants

EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has signed actress Brittany Bradford (Julia), as well as actress, comedian and digital creator Amanda McCants for management.

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09.12.2022 / 07:27

‘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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09.05.2022 / 16:29

‘Wedding Band’ Off Broadway Review: The Theater Discovers Alice Childress, Again

Trouble in Mind” was big news last season. Her “Wedding Band” is even bigger news this theater season.

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08.12.2021 / 01:02

Sidney Poitier’s trailblazing career to get Broadway treatment

told Variety. “Poitier has inspired many artists in multiple fields including encouraging Alice Childress to begin writing when they were both members at American Negro Theatre.”Poitier, 94, has built an illustrious career as a film icon and revered activist.

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24.11.2021 / 02:39

‘Trouble in Mind’ Director Charles Randolph-Wright Says Play About Race in the Theater World Is a ‘Love Letter and a Poison Pill’

Michael Appler August Wilson is well remembered for remarking that Black theater is alive, vibrant, vital and unfunded — that commerce and a common racism had long held American theater hostage to a mediocrity of tastes. On Broadway last Thursday, where Alice Childress’ 1955 play “Trouble in Mind” opened 66 years late, American theater took an overdue, yet well-timed step toward revising what plays ought to be considered classics.“Trouble in Mind,” starring LaChanze and directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, tells of Wiletta Mayer, a Black actress rehearsing a new anti-lynching play with an interracial company, written by a white author and led by a white director (Michael Zegen).

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20.11.2021 / 01:37

‘Trouble in Mind’ review: A sharp Broadway satire about race & showbiz

a Broadway season dominated by a ton of so-so new plays about ripped-from-the-headlines issues, one of the best has already reached retirement age.“Trouble in Mind,” which opened Thursday night at the American Airlines Theatre, was written way back in 1955 by Alice Childress, but never got to Broadway until now. There were plans for it to go to Midtown 66 years ago, however the backstage satire about a cast rehearsing a poorly written black drama was considered too edgy for white audiences at the time.2 hours and 10 minutes, with one intermission. At the American Airlines Theatre, 227 W.

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19.11.2021 / 06:41

‘Trouble In Mind’ Broadway Review: LaChanze Leads Alice Childress Play To Overdue Triumph

Sixty-four years late and right on time, Alice Childress’ wise and stirring backstage comedy-drama Trouble in Mind is making its long-in-coming Broadway debut tonight, and to describe the play as prescient would be an understatement. Uncanny rings truer.

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09.07.2021 / 23:03

LaChanze To Star In Broadway Opening Of Alice Childress’ ‘Trouble In Mind’

Antonio Ferme editorRoundabout Theatre Company announced that LaChanze will star in the Broadway premiere of Alice Childress’ “Trouble in Mind” this fall.LaChanze, a founding member of Black Theatre United, returns to Broadway following her 2019 performance as the Ghost of Christmas Present in “A Christmas Carol.” She also starred in “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” in 2018, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for best performance by a leading actress in a musical.Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, the production will begin preview performances on Oct. 29 ahead of a Nov.

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09.07.2021 / 18:03

LaChanze To Star In Broadway’s ‘Trouble In Mind’ This Fall

Tony- and Emmy Award- winning singer-actress LaChanze will return to Broadway this Fall in the starring role of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress, to be directed by Charles Randolph-Wright.

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10.05.2021 / 22:43

Roundabout’s ‘Caroline, Or Change’, ‘Trouble In Mind’, ‘Birthday Candles’ Announce Broadway Plans

Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company has unveiled its post-shutdown production schedule, with both the much-anticipated revival of Caroline, Or Change starring Sharon D Clarke and the Broadway debut of Alice Childress’ 1955 play Trouble in Mind both beginning previews in October.

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17.03.2021 / 21:57

Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Launches Online Reading Series Of Overlooked Black Plays

Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company, with a planned 2021-22 season opener of Black playwright Alice Childress’ rarely produced 1955 play Trouble in Mind, announced today the launch of a weekly online play reading series and resource library to bring attention to historically marginalized Black and Latinx voices of the theater.

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17.11.2020 / 20:11

‘Caroline, Or Change’, ‘Trouble In Mind’, ‘1776’ Target New Broadway Openings; No Date Yet For ‘Birthday Candles’ With Debra Messing

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Roundabout Theatre Company says it will resume production in Fall 2021 with two much anticipated shows – the COVID-delayed Jeanine Tesori/Tony Kushner musical Caroline, Or Change and Alice Childress’ Trouble In Mind. The planned musical revival of 1776 will now begin performances in Spring 2022.The nonprofit theater company does not have a date for its postponed production of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing.

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26.06.2020 / 18:03

Broadway’s Roundabout Postpones ‘Caroline, Or Change’, ‘Birthday Candles’ To 2021, Adds Alice Childress’ ‘Trouble In Mind’ To Line-Up

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical Caroline, or Change and the New York premiere of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing are the latest productions to announce postponements until 2021, and they’ll be joined on the Roundabout Theatre Company line-up with the Broadway debut of Alice Childress’ 1955 play Trouble in Mind, to directed by Charles Randolph-Wright.The postponements – plans to open both Caroline, Or Change and Birthday Candles this Spring were scuttled by Broadway’s COVID-19 shutdown – follow this week’s announcements that The Music Man, Flying Over Sunset, American Buffalo and The Minutes are now targeting Spring 2021 premieres.

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