The Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder‘s “Our Town” opened Oct. 10 to rave reviews. This imaginative restaging of this ...

He also received the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing from the Drama League Awards and the Outstanding Director - Play from the Drama Desk Awards for A Raisin in the Sun. Get Kenny Leon ...

Kenny Leon never worked with James Earl Jones ... Two years later, Leon won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for “A Raisin in the Sun.” As Leon made his way through Broadway ...

“A Raisin in the Sun” is one of the great classics in American theater, produced year-round across the nation. The strength of the story means it’s difficult to do a poor job with Lorraine ...

"Our Town" is often presented as Yankee Americana. Not in Kenny Leon's new production starring Jim Parsons, headed for ...

Best Featured Actress in a Play: Audra McDonald won. Best Leading Actress in a Play: Phylicia Rashad won. 2004 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actress - Play: Phylicia Rashad won. Outstanding ...

Theater's biggest stars from "Oh, Mary," "Sunset Boulevard," "Yellow Face,' "Our Town" and more joined Variety's Business of ...

A Raisin in the Sun also starring Washington, and The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. Kenny Leon and Kelly Reilly are repped by CAA. David Strathairn is repped by Ryan ...

ATLANTA - This year marks 65 years since Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking "A Raisin in the Sun" became the first play penned by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway. And over the next ...

And Cromer himself has spoken of the choice emerging not from a desire to “subvert Our Town ” but from a drive to rediscover ...

Since its first performance in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun has existed as a marker in American drama. The first play by a Black woman to hit Broadway, it then proceeded to scoop ...