Upcoming Awards and Performances
September 24,25 at 8pm The Cabaret, 924 N Pennsylvania St Suite B, Indianapolis, IN 46204
October 24 André De Shields to Be Honored at Victory Gardens Theater Gala on October 24
Dallas Theater Center, William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." André De Shields is Prospero. Photo by Elizabeth Mikel.
Page Six: André De Shields talks being typecast as ‘the magical negro’
May 30, 2020
“Hadestown” star André De Shields, 74, waited a lifetime for the part.
“It wasn’t until ‘Hadestown’ that the request came to be smart, to be intelligent, to be a master of language, to be a griot, to be a storyteller, to be a keeper of faith . . . that’s what I’ve been looking for my entire career,” he told co-star T. Oliver Reid in a chat for media company Native Son. “No one has ever asked me to bring erudition to a role . . . I have for the longest time, with no real regrets, been the magical negro.”
Forbes: Broadway Veterans Offer Master Classes During Quarantine for Bridge To Broadway
May 22, 2020
Participants included Tony Award winners such as AIan Menken Judith Light, Harvey Fierstein, Ali Stroker, Ben Vereen and André de Shields, plus a range of other actors, choreographers, composers, agents and casting directors.
DC Theatre Scene: Viral Monologues’ series “COVID AND INCARCERATION” hard truths, powerful telling
May 14, 2020
“We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces,” says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, as the character in Shakira Senghor’s play A Father’s Sorrow. It is one of the 15 new plays in “COVID and Incarceration,” a special edition this week of the 24 Hour Plays’ online Viral Monologues.
De Shields’ performance in A Father’s Sorrow is mesmerizing, all the more so because his character is based on playwright Senghor’s conversations with a man named Elder Qualls, who has a compelling true story of ongoing injustice to tell.
BroadwayWorld: André De Shields, Jelani Alladin and More Make An Impact With The 24 Hour Plays VIRAL MONOLOGUES
May 13, 2020
NYTimes.com: Why 'Hair' Has Endured
April 13, 2020
Members of the original casts of “Hair,” which played in various cities, including, from left: CHARLOTTE CROSSLEY, JAMES RADO, STAN SHAW, NATALIE MOSCO, LEATA GALLOWAY, DAVID PATRICK KELLY, MEAT LOAF, TED LANGE, DALE SOULES, ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS and MARJORIE LIPARI. Photographed at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York City on Feb. 7, 2020. Nicholas Calcott
New York Times: To Help Performers in Need, Funky Videos at Your Fingertips
March 23, 2020
The performer Taylor Mac and the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks have signed on to a video-sharing subscription service to raise money for New York colleagues in crisis
But now, a group of New York performers is offering a twist on the concept: a subscription-based service offering a steady stream of performance videos, with all the proceeds to benefit New York artists in need.
The Trickle Up, launched on Monday, aims to keep things simple. For $10 a month, subscribers have access to smartphone videos by participating artists. So far, an eclectic mix of more than 50 artists have signed on with a promise to make at least three videos each, including the puppeteer Basil Twist, the comedian Bridget Everett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and Annie Baker, the performance artist Penny Arcade, the directors Rachel Chavkin and Lear DeBessonet and the Tony-winning performer André de Shields (“Hadestown”).
The project is spearheaded by the playwright and performer Taylor Mac, who said he got the idea earlier this month when worries over the coronavirus mounted and he was figuring out how to, as he put it, “responsibly” close down his new play “The Fre,” which was in previews at the Flea in downtown Manhattan.
“One day, I overheard a woman in the lobby say she had three jobs yesterday, and no jobs today,” Mac said by telephone from the Berkshires. “I spent the first 35 years of my life living week to week, gig to gig. It’s just impossible for people to even buy groceries, to do basic things, with no stable income for a while, and then no income.”
In exchange for participating, Mac said, each performer will be able to designate an artist in need as a beneficiary. The goal is to get 10,000 subscribers, and depending on how things take off, continue even after the immediate crisis ends.
“We’ve all been canceled before, but none of us have all been canceled at the same time,” Mac said. “There’s some comfort in solidarity.”
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Backstage Pass with Lia Chang: Tony, Grammy and Emmy Winner André De Shields Brings OLD DAWG; NEW TRICKS to the Broadway Cabaret Series at Old School Square's Crest Theatre
March 10, 2020
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