{"id":20800,"date":"2022-08-09T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/entertainment\/audra-mcdonald-returning-to-broadway-this-fall-will-star-in-adrienne-kennedys-ohio-state-murders\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:34:40","slug":"audra-mcdonald-returning-to-broadway-this-fall-will-star-in-adrienne-kennedys-ohio-state-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/entertainment\/audra-mcdonald-returning-to-broadway-this-fall-will-star-in-adrienne-kennedys-ohio-state-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"Audra McDonald Returning to Broadway This Fall, Will Star in Adrienne Kennedy\u2019s \u201cOhio State Murders\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald\u2019s beforehand introduced return to Broadway in \u201cOhio State Murders\u201d now has a gap date confirmed: previews for the restricted engagement will start November 11, with the official opening set for December 8. Penned by playwright Adrienne Kennedy, it will likely be the primary manufacturing to be held on the newly re-named and renovated James Earl Jones Theatre (previously the Cort Theatre).<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with Playbill, McDonald will painting Suzanne Alexander, a author who \u201creturns to her alma mater as a visitor speaker to discover the violence in her works, and a darkish thriller unravels.\u201d The supply provides, \u201cthe suspense play additionally presents a have a look at the destructiveness of racism in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, finest identified for her Obie award successful performs \u201cFunnyhouse of a Negro\u201d and \u201cJune and Jean in Live performance,\u201d is \u2014 at 91 \u2014 making her Broadway playwriting debut with the manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Stated McDonald, \u201cI\u2019m honored and humbled to be a part of Adrienne Kennedy\u2019s long-overdue Broadway debut within the newly devoted James Earl Jones Theatre with [director] Kenny Leon. This timeless play has a robust resonance and relevance right this moment, and we will\u2019t wait to share it with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDonald and Leon beforehand labored collectively on a digital studying of the play, aired as a part of Broadway\u2019s Finest Reveals\u2019 Highlight on Performs collection in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s final Broadway look was a 2019 revival of \u201cFrankie and Johnny within the Clair de Lune.\u201d Lately she has additionally performed collection common roles on TV\u2019s \u201cThe Good Struggle\u201d and \u201cThe Gilded Age.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Supply: <a href=\"https:\/\/womenandhollywood.com\/audra-mcdonald-returning-to-broadway-this-fall-will-star-in-adrienne-kennedys-ohio-state-murders\/\">Women And Hollywood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald\u2019s beforehand introduced return to Broadway in \u201cOhio State Murders\u201d now has a gap date confirmed: previews for the restricted engagement will start November 11, with the official opening set for December 8. Penned by playwright Adrienne Kennedy, it will likely be the primary manufacturing to be held on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20801,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions\/20801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}