Based on how much Shakespeare that was being done in New York in 2013, one would never suspect that the Bard has been dead for nearly four hundred years. While Shakespeare in the Park is an annual summer tradition in New York, this year’s Love’s Labor Lost was just the
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For a long time the only chance someone of African descent had of starring in a Shakespeare tragedy was the title role of Othello, and even that was off-limits when the role was played (as it often was) by a white actor in blackface. Not only has that thankfully changed,
It’s probably hard enough for a famous actor to make his or her debut on Broadway. It doesn’t make it any easier if the play is one of the most famous in history and has been read by probably every kid in middle school. But Orlando Bloom is well aware
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Orlando Bloom will make his Broadway debut alongside Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad, as Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in a new Broadway production of Romeo and Julliet, directed by five-time Tony Award nominee David Leveaux.
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Actress Condola Rashad, the daughter of The Cosby’s Phylicia Rashad and broadcaster Ahmad Rashad, is garnering rave reviews for her recent work in the soap opera Broadway musical Stick Fly.
