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Category : "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Sanaa Lathan
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Tony Award nominee Sanaa Lathan will star as Maggie the Cat in the all-black West End revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Lathan joins the previously announced James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad and Adrian Lester. Directed by Debbie Allen, performances begin at the Novello Theatre on November 21.
Lathan received a 2001 Tony Award nomination for her performance as Beneatha Younger in A Raisin in the Sun. She has been seen off-Broadway in Por' Knockers, A Movie Star Has To Star in Black and White, The Vagina Monologues and the Shakespeare in the Park mounting of Measure for Measure. Her film credits include Alien Vs. Predator, Blade, The Wood, The Best Man and most notably Love & Basketball which earned her a Best Actress Award from the NAACP for her performance in the film. She has since appeared on the big screen in Brown Sugar, Out of Time, The Family That Preys, Powder Blue and Wonderful World and had a recurring role on the popular television show Nip/Tuck....
James Earl Jones &
Phylicia Rashad
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James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad are set to star in the West End revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The actors, who recently portrayed the roles of Big Daddy and Big Mama on Broadway, will be joined by Adrian Lester as Brick. Performances will begin in December 1, directed by Debbie Allen.
Prior to starring as Big Mama, Rashad will star as Violet Weston in the Tony-winning production of August: Osage County. She won a Best Actress Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun and received a Tony nomination for August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. Other Broadway credits include Jelly's Last Jam, Into the Woods, Dreamgirls and The Wiz. Off-Broadway, she played the title role in Bernarda Alba and appeared in The Story, Helen, Blue, The Vagina Monologues and Everybody's Ruby. A two-time Emmy nominee, she is best known as Clair Huxtable in The Cosby Show.
Jones won Best Actor Tony Awards for August Wilson's Fences and for The Great White Hope and was nominated for a Tony for his performance in the revival of On Golden Pond. His many Broadway credits include Master Harold and the Boys, Othello, A Lesson from Aloes, Paul Robeson, Of Mice and Men and The Iceman Cometh. Off-Broadway and in Central Park, he has starred in productions of King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Boesman and Lena, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Baal and The Blood Knot. ...
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