Cicely Tyson

Broadway's Most Honored Set Designer

This season it's David Rockwell, who has two, count 'em two, Tony nominations--one for the factory/nightclub set of Kinky Boots and another for the '80s newsroom ambience of Lucky Guy. This week's column contains my chat with various Tony nominees like Tom Hanks and Cicely Tyson, whom I interviewed ... More >>

Tom Hanks Tells Me What People Do To Him On The Subway

Here's all the chatter from Broadway's nominees

Tom Hanks Rides The Subway, And Other Factlets I Just Got At A Tony Awards Event

This week's column is a rollicking romp through a Tony nominees' meet-and-greet event, where Tom Hanks told me what people do to him on the subway, how his play was changed in rehearsal, and other insights into what it's like to be Tom Hanks on Broadway. You heard me right, by the way: Tom Hanks ri ... More >>

Tyson Takes a Trip to Bountiful; Imelda Dominates Here Lies Love; Midler Meddles as Sue Mengers

Where there's a will...

Broadway Roundup: Cicely Tyson, Alan Cumming....

Start shining the Tony award for Cicely Tyson, who's just plain wonderful in The Trip To Bountiful, Horton Foote's play about an older lady who wants to return to the Texas town of her youth, remembering it as a place of fertility and goodness. The 1985 movie had a heartbreaking Geraldine Page per ... More >>

The Trip To Bountiful Is Now A Comment On Racism

Horton Foote's emotional The Trip To Bountiful--about a widow's yearning to revisit her beloved Bountiful, Texas--began as a TV movie, then it was a Broadway play, then a 1985 movie (which won Geraldine Page a deserved Oscar), and now it's back on Broadway, with Cicely Tyson in the lead role. Trip ... More >>

Runaway Slaves Torment The Haunting in Connecticut Sequel, Ghosts of Georgia

The Mainstreaming of Madea

Tyler Perry's mammy gets less melodramatic but not less grotesque

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

Where Have All the Hipsters Gone?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 10, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 32 Where have all the hipsters gone? By Bill Amidon What's going on around here? Where the hell is everybody? I've been living in the West and East Villages for the past 13 years and I'v known a gang of ... More >>

Tyler Perry Assembles The World's Greatest Blactresses

​So Tyler Perry--you know, the Madea guy--is writing and directing a film called For Colored Girls, based on the brilliant series of monologues called For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. (The play surfaced in '75, when you had to have long, interesting title ... More >>

Hollywood's Best Black Divas Of All Time

​A new book called Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film by Mia Mask examines five African American film icons, discussing: Dorothy Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era ... More >>

'Madea's Family Reunion'

Film

The Great Contender

How Mitch 'Blood' Green Got His Groove Back

NY Mirror

Bob Dorough Endures

Pluck Your Magic Twanger, Froggy

Spoilsports of the Century

Mitch ‘Blood’ Green, Heavyweight Boxer, 1980–1998