Netflix is giving Chadwick Boseman the documentary special treatment this month with the surprise release of “Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist,” billed as an “intimate look” at the late actor with interviews from some of his closest Hollywood collaborators. The special debuts this weekend but will only be streaming for a limited 30-day window.
The official synopsis from Netflix for the special reads: “‘Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist’ is an intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s incomparable artistry, and the acting process which informed his transformative performances. Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, George C. Wolfe, Branford Marsalis, Phylicia Rashad and more take us behind the scenes to explore Boseman’s extraordinary commitment to his craft.”
Boseman is the frontrunner to win the Oscar for Best Actor this year thanks to his performance in the Netflix original drama “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The actor has already won the Screen Actors Guild Award,...
The official synopsis from Netflix for the special reads: “‘Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist’ is an intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s incomparable artistry, and the acting process which informed his transformative performances. Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, George C. Wolfe, Branford Marsalis, Phylicia Rashad and more take us behind the scenes to explore Boseman’s extraordinary commitment to his craft.”
Boseman is the frontrunner to win the Oscar for Best Actor this year thanks to his performance in the Netflix original drama “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The actor has already won the Screen Actors Guild Award,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
In honor of the late, legendary playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre is throwing a citywide celebration April 30–June 5. Curated by resident director Chuck Smith, the five weeks of programming will include performances focusing on how the writer’s Chicago roots informed and affected her brilliant work. To kick off the celebration, “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” Hansberry’s final play, is being staged in a buzzy production directed by Anne Kauffman at the Goodman. The City of Chicago has proclaimed May 19 Lorraine Hansberry Day, commemorating what would have been her 86th birthday. In addition, five African-American female artists will be honored at the Lorraine Hansberry Awards, hosted on May 24 hosted by Smith and Woodie King, Jr., in recognition of their effect on American theater. “During her all-too-brief life and career, Lorraine Hansberry left an indelible mark on the American theater,” said Smith in a statement. “It...
- 5/5/2016
- backstage.com
Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre continues its 44th season with the second play of 'The Ed Bullins Project' dedicated to the pioneer of the Black Arts Movement and one of America's most important and influential playwrights The Fabulous Miss Marie, first produced in 1971 at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, opens tonight, Thursday May 1st and continues through May 18th. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action...
- 5/1/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre continues its 44th season with the second play of 'The Ed Bullins Project' dedicated to the pioneer of the Black Arts Movement and one of America's most important and influential playwrights The Fabulous Miss Marie, first produced in 1971 at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem began performances April 17th and continues through May 18th, with opening night set for tonight, May 1st. Woodie King Jr directs a cast that features Tony and Drama Desk Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Roscoe Orman 'Sesame Street' along with Toccarra Cash, Michael Chenevert, Ugo Chukwu, Aaliyah Habeeb, Beethovan Oden, G. Alverez Reid, Ashley C. Turner, and Brittany N. Williams.
- 5/1/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
On the new Theater Talk, Denzel Washington, star of the hit Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, gets together with an old friend, Woodie King, Jr., the Founder and Artistic Director of the New Federal Theatre. They look back at their first experiences seeing Hansberry's ground-breaking play, as well as their work together when Washington first appeared at the New Federal Theatre in 1981, in Laurence Holder's When Chickens Come Home to Roost.
- 4/23/2014
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The newest Theater Talk features first, three artists closely involved with the success of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - actors Jefferson Mays, Bryce Pinkham and director Darko Tresnjak - followed by Woodie King, Jr. Founder, Artistic Director and guiding spirit of off-Broadway's New Federal Theatre, now celebrating 44 years as a home to minority and women writers, directors and actors.
- 4/4/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre continues its 44th season with the second play of 'The Ed Bullins Project' dedicated to the pioneer of the Black Arts Movement and one of America's most important and influential playwrights The Fabulous Miss Marie, first produced in 1971 at the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem will begin performances April 17th and continue through May 18th, with opening night set for May 1st. Woodie King Jr directs a cast that features Tony and Drama Desk Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Roscoe Orman 'Sesame Street' along with Toccarra Cash, Michael Chenevert, Ugo Chukwu, Aaliyah Habeeb, Beethovan Oden, G. Alverez Reid, Ashley C. Turner, and Brittany N. Williams.
- 3/24/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre's 44th anniversary culminated with a special Gala at the Bmcc Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers Street last night, March 16th. This special event saluting Nft, for over 40 years a seminal force in Black Theater, was hosted by Danny Glover and Debbi Morgan. BroadwayWorld brings you more photos from inside the big event below...
- 3/17/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre will celebrate its 44th anniversary with a special fundraising campaign, 'Love For New Federal Theatre.' Celebrity participants and supporters of Nft themselves, including Phylicia Rashad, Spike Lee, Alicia Keys, Melba Moore, Marla Gibbs, Robert Hooks, Roscoe Orman, Ruby Dee, Avery Brooks, Glynn Turman, Kene Holiday, Chadwick Boseman, Petri Hawkins Byrd, Impotep Gary Byrd, Debbie Allen, Lynn Whitfield, Lamman Rucker, John Amos, Robert Townsend, Leslie Uggams, Ted Lange, Andre DeShields, Mike Tyson and Danny Glover, among others, will fans will have the opportunity to order a limited number of personalized Valentine's Day messages. These celebrity messages will be available for purchase on a first come, first served basis.
- 2/5/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This year's Edwin Booth Award will be presented to the legendary theatre director and producer Woodie King, Jr., founding director of the pioneering African-American theatrical production and training institution New Federal Theatre. The New Federal Theater integrates minorities and women into the mainstream of the profession through artistic training and play production. Mr. King will be present to receive the award. The event takes place May 6th at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Mestc of The Graduate Center of City University of NY.
- 4/29/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The National Theatre Conference Ntc, an organization founded in 1925 that meets annually in New York to discuss relevant issues in todays theatre community and to celebrate outstanding achievement in the American theatre, has named the recipients of its 2012 awards. Broadway producer Elizabeth McCann has been named Person of the Year the New Federal Theatre, under the direction of its founder, Woodie King, Jr., is the recipient of the Theatre of the Year Award and playwright Dominique Morisseau has been selected as the winner of the Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award. All three will be presented with their awards and honored at the Players and at Signature Theatre during NTCs annual conference in New York October 26-28, 2012.
- 10/11/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
On Wednesday, March 21, Theatre Resources Unlimited (Tru) will present "Coloring the Great White Way: Bringing Diversity to Commercial Theater," a panel discussion focused on how to bring more diverse productions and audiences to the traditionally great "white" way.Panelists will include producer Nelle Nugent ("Stick Fly," "Ghetto Klown," "Time Stands Still"); Woodie King Jr., artistic director of New Federal Theatre ("For Colored Girls..."); Donna Walker-Kuhne of Walker International Communications; Kamilah Forbes, artistic director of the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival and director ("Def Poetry Jam on Broadway"); and Melissa Marano, senior client account executive at aka Promotions ("Jerusalem," "The Motherf**er With The Hat," "Stick Fly," "A Streetcar Named Desire"). The panel will take place on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal St., NYC. Tickets are $12 (free for Tru members). To RSVP, email TRUnltd@aol.com or call (212) 714-7628 at least a day in advance.The panel will.
- 3/15/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
Long before Denzel Washington was Denzel -- the two-time Oscar winner who is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars -- he was a struggling actor taking the stage in summer stock and off-Broadway productions.
When he was cast as Malcolm X in “When Chickens Come Home to Roost” at the New Federal Theatre in 1981, little did he know that the role would propel his career into the stratosphere. Washington’s electric performance captivated audiences and caught the attention of television producers assembling the cast for a new TV hospital drama, “St. Elsewhere,” which went on to win multiple Emmys and push-start his jump to Hollywood. Sitting in the audience for one of those shows at the theater’s home on Grand Street on New York’s Lower East Side was a young Nyu film student named Spike Lee, who was blown away by Washington’s performance and chose him to...
When he was cast as Malcolm X in “When Chickens Come Home to Roost” at the New Federal Theatre in 1981, little did he know that the role would propel his career into the stratosphere. Washington’s electric performance captivated audiences and caught the attention of television producers assembling the cast for a new TV hospital drama, “St. Elsewhere,” which went on to win multiple Emmys and push-start his jump to Hollywood. Sitting in the audience for one of those shows at the theater’s home on Grand Street on New York’s Lower East Side was a young Nyu film student named Spike Lee, who was blown away by Washington’s performance and chose him to...
- 5/16/2011
- by Marcus Baram
- Huffington Post
"What Would Jesus Do?" was the question of the night at the 38th Annual Vivian Robinson-Audelco Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre. "Jesus," a play about HIV/AIDS written by Yvette Heyliger, took home seven awards, including dramatic production of the year. Close behind it was "Langston in Harlem," receiving four awards, including musical production of the year.The event took place at the Harlem Stage Aaron Davis Hall on Monday night. The ceremony began at 7:30 p.m. with an opening performance of "We Are Family" by Impact Repertory Theatre, in accordance with the evening's theme. Host Ron Lucas then took the stage and called out for his co-host, Melba Moore. Instead, after some silence, and a bit of giggling from the audience, actress Joyce Sylvester, appeared with a, "Sorry Ron, I'll be your co-host tonight." It appeared that Moore could not make the event. The first award...
- 11/17/2010
- backstage.com
The consensus is that it's "natural" for Dan Friedman to take over as artistic director of New York's Castillo Theatre. In Friedman's words, it is a "logical and natural progression." In the words of Richard Schechner, editor of The Drama Review, at Friedman's official appointment on April 4, it is "only what should happen in the natural-social-political-artistic order of things."That's largely because Friedman was present when the seeds of this grass-roots theater company were planted. Back in the early '80s, he and the other founders of Castillo utilized their backgrounds as community organizers to raise money for a politically and socially engaged theater. As expected, most people kept walking past the group's streetside tables. Many were just nasty, claiming Friedman was a scam artist. The few who expressed interest would say, " 'This sounds like a great idea, but I don't think you have a chance of a snowball in hell of succeeding,...
- 4/9/2010
- backstage.com
Some 11 years before Denzel Washington played Malcolm X, Morgan Freeman beat him to the punch playing him in theater director Woodie King Jr.’s 1981 low budget made-for-tv film Death of a Prophet. The film, which mainly played in the film festival circuit where I saw it, also has the unique casting of Martin Luther King’s late daughter Yolanda King as Malcolm X’s wife Betty Shabazz. The film was briefly released on DVD but is scheduled to be released again on Echo Bridge Entertainment Video soon. First Malcolm, then Mandela. I think Freeman should go for the trifecta and play Frederick Douglas next. Check out the trailer:...
- 3/21/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre will present the final reading in the Gurfein Foundation/Ntozake Shange Play Reading Series: Derek Walcott's new play Marie Laveau, with music by Galt MacDermot. The reading will take place Sunday, June 28th at 3pm, at Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues). Clinton Turner Davis directs a cast that features Arthur Bartow, Trazana Beverley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Gerard Catus, Lia Chaing, Dk Dyson, Stu Richel, Martin Shakar, and Marie Thomas as Marie Laveau.
- 6/11/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre will present Kernel of Sanity by Kermit Frazier at their home at Henry Street Settlement's Abrons Arts Center/Recital Hall (466 Grand Street). Performances begin April 9th with Opening Night set for Thursday, April 16th. Performances continue through May 3rd only. Petronia Paley directs a cast that features Madeleine James, Joel Nagle*, and Chaz Reuben*.
- 3/26/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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