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"We’re never going to fix the world. But if we can heal it a little, we’re very happy," the playwright said of his corn-fed show, which is up for nine Tony Awards.
Terence Greene, 57, a former school dance teacher, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for raping six teenage students and sexually abusing two others.
Comer told audiences at “Prima Facie" she couldn't breathe, before stopping the play just 10 minutes in.
"I’m a big Black woman," the Tony nominee told HuffPost. "I don’t have to be limited to standing still in the corner or being in the back.”
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The famed Talking Heads musician is now trying to produce a Broadway musical without live music.
"I got quite a lot of flak for that," the "Interstellar" actor said.
The Tony nominee is not a fan of the classic 1959 film with an all-white cast. Co-writing the Broadway musical helped turn its story into something she could love.
The New York actor says starring opposite Hayes in the Broadway drama “lifts my soul into the stratosphere every day.”
The New York singer-songwriter is hopeful "Come Out" will encourage listeners to do away with “the self-important personas we all build up for ourselves.”
Organizers say they are "altering" Broadway's biggest night to "conform with specific requests" from the Writers Guild of America.