Condola Rashad

Theater
September 25, 2013
Tragic Lovers Get Teenage Kicks in Romeo and Juliet Revival
Theater
September 4, 2013
Theater Fall Picks 2013
Columns
May 8, 2013
Tom Hanks Tells Me What People Do To Him On The Subway
Here's all the chatter from Broadway's nominees
Theater
May 1, 2013
Tyson Takes a Trip to Bountiful; Imelda Dominates Here Lies Love; Midler Meddles as Sue Mengers
Where there's a will...
Blogs
April 24, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
My Tony Nomination Predictions!
I've seen almost everything this season except Magic/Bird--which to me sounds like a wildlife puppet show, and it's quite possible that's what it is--and I'm ready to tell you who will definitely maybe probably almost get Tony nominated tomorrow morning. Here goes: BEST PLAY *Clybourne Park *Othe ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Black Version Of Steel Magnolias! Dig The Casting!
Lifetime is doing a Steel Magnolias of color, and I'm all hopped up about the cast. Get this: In the part of Truvy, the salon owner played by Dolly Parton in the 1989 movie, they've signed the formidable Jill Scott.
Theater
December 7, 2011
Stick Fly Goes Buggy for Broadway
Lydia R. Diamond's battling-family play debuts at the Cort
Theater
February 18, 2009
Ruined's Women Face a Congo Civil War; Shipwrecked!'s Hero Wrestles with His Imagination