Kenny Leon never worked with James Earl Jones. But he quickly acknowledges the connective tissue the legendary actor provided to propel him to a Tony Award and 17 Broadway productions. In 1988 ...
Now, Tony award-winning director Kenny Leon is bringing it back, and Entertainment Weekly has your exclusive first look at the production. "The first words of Our Town are what make seeing it and ...
Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon will bring Grover's Corners back to Broadway. The acclaimed director of "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch ...
And though some of the effectiveness of the revival is clearly the result of Kenny Leon’s swift and unsentimental direction, and of a fine cast led by the mercilessly acute Jim Parsons as the ...
Revival of Thornton Wilder’s American classic lacks the necessary spark In a programme note for his revival of Thornton Wilder’s American classic, director Kenny Leon tells the audience that ...
From: Photos: Director Kenny Leon Gets His Sardi's Portrait Check out photos of Tony winning director Kenny Leon's new caricature unveiling at Sardi's!
In the program for this new staging, helmed by Kenny Leon, the time and setting are marked as “Now”; hence, I assume, that opening sequence, which nods both to the diversity of New York audiences and ...
Home, the Samm-Art Williams play directed by Kenny Leon and opening on Broadway this summer, has announced its cast. The Roundabout Theatre Company production will star Tory Kittles (The Equalizer ...
Kenny Leon, the creative force behind a new revival of “Our Town” on Broadway this fall, wasn’t always a fan of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play. ”There was no diversity in the town,” the ...
This imaginative restaging of this American classic by Tony-winning director Kenny Leon (“A Raisin in the Sun”) is sure to be a strong contender at the Tony Awards next June. The 1988 ...
It takes a great deal of work to make the ordinary enticing, but that’s precisely what director Kenny Leon does in his production of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning “Our Town.” ...