Kenny Leon
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‘Purlie Victorious’ Broadway Review: Leslie Odom Jr. Gives Ossie Davis’ Preacher a Brilliant Encore
Kenny Leon directs a comic riot that is the season’s funniest show on Broadway
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Was Kenny Leon’s Job Directing ‘Mahalia’ a Good Assignment or Divine Inspiration?
TheWrap magazine: The veteran director isn’t sure, but he’d been listening to Jackson’s music every single day before he got the call to direct the Lifetime movie
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Danielle Brooks to Star in Lifetime’s ‘The Mahalia Jackson Story’ From Robin Roberts, Director Kenny Leon
Lifetime and Roberts extend agreement for four new movies under the “Robin Roberts Presents” banner
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Why ‘American Son’ Director Kenny Leon Is ‘Radically Optimistic’ Amid Unrest Over Racial Injustice (Video)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “This is our moment to really make some progress. It appears that the world is listening in a different way, so I’m hopeful of that,” Leon says
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‘A Soldier’s Play’ Broadway Review: Blair Underwood and David Alan Grier Stand and Salute
Charles Fuller’s 1981 whodunit gets a military-precise revival
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‘The Underlying Chris’ Theater Review: Will Eno Goes Full Hallmark
The playwright continues to explore the wondrousness of life, even when it’s downright ordinary
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Deon Taylor, Kenny Leon, Sherry Lansing to Receive Special Achievement Awards From African American Film Critics
Other honorees include Richard Roeper, Clarence Avant, Niija Kukendall and Matthew Cherry
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‘American Son’ Trailer: Kerry Washington Calls Out Racial Injustice in Search for Her Missing Son (Video)
Film based on Broadway play written by Christopher Demos-Brown debuts on Netflix on Nov. 1
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Letter From Toronto: Films on Striving to Be Black in America
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Beyond Black Lives Matter, “Waves” and “American Son” depict a netherworld where the upper middle class black experience teeters on the edge of tragedy
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Netflix Adaptation of Kerry Washington’s Broadway Play ‘American Son’ to Premiere at Toronto Film Festival
Film will launch Nov. 1 on streaming service
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Disney’s Animated ‘Hercules’ to Flex as Stage Musical This Summer
Alan Menken and David Zippel to expand score for show set for debut at Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park
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Jennifer Hudson on Why ‘Hairspray Live!’ Was the Scariest Thing She’s Ever Done in Her Career (Exclusive Video)
Actress also speaks to TheWrap about performing the emotional song “I Know Where I’ve Been” during NBC live musical
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Musical Event Series ‘Cotton Club’ From Craig Zadan, Neil Meron in the Works at Fox
LA Reid to executive produce drama set in the 1920s
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NBC’s ‘Hairspray Live’ Gets December Date, ‘The Wiz Live’ Creative Team
Live musical event will be directed by Kenny Leon
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‘Smart People’ Theater Review: Joshua Jackson, Tessa Thomson Gets Caught in Racial Crossfire
Lydia R. Diamond’s new play is about racism in the way that Jules Feiffer’s “Carnal Knowledge” screenplay is about sexism. Nothing else is open for discussion
