‘Hadestown’ Star André De Shields on Winning His First Tony and Black Lives Matter
Michael Appler Theater is fleeting by nature, and as such, those who pioneer the way for inclusivity on stage — who give performances that chip away at inequity role by role — are sometimes forgotten. With performers like Lillias White and André De Shields, those roles are so numerous that sitting them down together, as the Broadway Advocacy Coalition did on Tuesday night in New York City, erects a living monument to Black Broadway. The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, an activist group leading conversations about dismantling structures of racial power in American theater, brought the two stage legends together as a part of their new virtual series, BroadwayVS.