NEW YORK -- By winning the Tony for best actress in a play, Phylicia Rashad completed a journey started by Claudia McNeil more than four decades ago in the first production of "A Raisin in the Sun." On...
...winner Sunday at the Tonys where history was made as Phylicia Rashad became the first black actress to win for a leading...BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY: Phylicia Rashad, "A Raisin in the Sun." BEST PERFORMANCE BY A...
...show was my childhood," said Bledsoe, who played middle child Vanessa in the show that also starred Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Lisa Bonet and Keshia Knight Pulliam. "It did so many things. It greatly influenced...
...didn't get a 2004 Tony Award nomination Monday, but he graciously thanked his co-stars in "A Raisin in the Sun" - Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan - who received nominations for their work in the hit revival of Lorraine Hansberry's...
...debut of its star, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. Two years later, Mr. Combs is back, reuniting with Tony winners Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald and Tony nominee Sanaa Lathan for the ABC film version, which premieres at 8 p.m. Monday...
...is making his Broadway debut in the revival, which premiered Monday at the Royale Theatre. Also in the cast are Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald, who received better notices than their more-famous co-star. Set in the late 1950s in a rundown...
...The show focuses on an imaginative 5-year-old boy living with his father (voiced by Gregory Hines), mother (Phylicia Rashad) and grandmother (Ruby Dee). VIRTUALLY NO SOCIAL LIFE: California's Silicon Valley has surpassed Anchorage...
...who played Falstaff. The Shakespeare drama also won for play-revival and for director-play, Jack O'Brien. Phylicia Rashad, who portrays the determined matriarch in the revival of "A Raisin in the Sun," and Viola Davis, a lonely seamstress...
...Reckless," and Cherry Jones for "Doubt" and Phylicia Rashad for "Gem of the Ocean." Best actor nominees: Billy...Sight Unseen "; Mary-Louise Parker, "Reckless"; Phylicia Rashad, "Gem of the Ocean"; Kathleen Turner, "Who's...
...Details about how to obtain tickets appear at the end. -"A Raisin in the Sun." Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad and Sanaa Lathan star in a revival of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking drama. Now in previews. Opens April...
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