July 21, 2020
Nydailynews.com: Tony Award winner André De Shields, others tapped for ‘Ballots Over Broadway’ voter-focused benefit concert
June 07, 2020
CBS Sunday Morning: On Broadway: Keeping the Lights On
COVID-19 has shuttered stages on the Great White Way, but there are some traditions in Broadway theaters that can't be totally turned off. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with "Hadestown" star André De Shields, multiple Tony-winner Bernadette Peters, Broadway producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper, and Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley, the couple behind the "Stars In the House" web series, about how theater artists are coping with the shutdown by turning to a whole new stage.
June 18, 2020
June 28: BC/EFA Presents Stream of THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME to Benefit Provincetown Theater
Cast Includes David Drake, Brandon Cordeiro, Robin De Jesús, André De Shields, Claybourne Elder, Rory O'Malley, Anthony Rapp, Wesley Taylor, Chad Ryan, Donald C. Shorter, Jr., Aaron Tone and BD Wong
May 14, 2020
DC Theatre Scene: Viral Monologues’ series “COVID AND INCARCERATION” hard truths, powerful telling
“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.
April 13, 2020
NYTimes.com: Why 'Hair' Has Endured
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 Calcose
December 24, 2019
Bustle.com: 'John Mulaney & The #SackLunchBunch' Guest Stars Provide A Delightful Snack Of Entertainment
André De Shields can teach the Sack Lunch Bunch a thing or two about stage performing since he recently won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the Best Musical of the year, Hadestown. He has also appeared on television and won an Emmy for his performance in Ain't Misbehavin' on NBC. He's also currently nominated for the Best Musical Theater Album Grammy for Hadestown. So if he wins that, De Shields will be just an Oscar away from an EGOT.
October 30, 2019
Playbill: Tony Winners Ali Stroker and André De Shields Part of Lincoln Center’s 2020 American Songbook Season
September 09, 2019
Playbill: Hadestown Tony Winner André De Shields, Donna McKechnie, Ann Reinking Among 2019 Theater Hall of Fame Inductees
March 21, 2017
Playbill.com: Broadway-Aimed Musical Hadestown Workshopped With Reeve Carney
Hadestown, the new, award-winning folk opera by Anaïs Mitchell that was seen Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop last spring, will receive a March 24 New York City workshop presentation.
Directed by Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812), Hadestown has undergone revisions to its script and score since its NYTW run. This new version will premiere at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, November 11–December 3.
Previous reports indicate that the creative team is grooming the musical for a Broadway run, though an official announcement has not been made. NYTW is presenting this latest workshop.
Hadestown follows Orpheus’ mythical quest to overcome Hades and regain his one true love, Eurydice. According to production notes, Mitchell’s musical production is inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz.
The cast features Reeve Carney as Orpheus, Gizel Jimenez as Eurydice, Patrick Page as Hades, Amber Gray as Persephone, André De Shields as Hermes, as well as Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Rocky Vega, James Brown III, Marcus Choi, LuLu Fall, and Adam Perry.
March 04, 2017
DallasNews.com: DTC's 'Tempest' celebrates community with exuberant Public Works Dallas launch
"André de Shields, one of the five professional actors, deepens and clarifies the journey of a man moving from his desire for power and revenge to forgiveness and a more modest role in an interdependent community. "
August 10, 2016
Broadwayworld.com: André De Shields' New Work CONFESSIONS OF A P.I.M.P. Comes to Victory Gardens This Month
Dennis Zacek and Grippo Stage Co., Inc., will present Confessions of a P.I.M.P., written and performed by André De Shields, and directed by Samuel G. Roberson and Dennis Zacek. The cast also includes Kimberly Lawson and Donica Lynn. Confessions of a P.I.M.P. runs August 26, 27 at 8pm and August 28 at 7:30pm at Victory Gardens Theater, located at 2433 N. Lincoln Ave.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased atwww.victorygardens.org or by calling the box office at 773-871-3000.
June 09, 2016
Broadwayworld.com: Riant Theatre Announces 2016 Pioneer of the Arts Award Winners
The evening will include the presentation of 2016 Pioneer of the Arts Award For Outstanding Achievement In Television and Theatre to the Emmy-winning stage, film and TV actor Joe Morton, Tony Nominee and eight time AUDELCO Award winner, André De Shields, the acclaimed Broadway and television actress Barbara Montgomery, and multiple Grammy Award winner, Broadway musical director and arranger Chapman Roberts.
May 26, 2016
BWW Review: Shakespeare Theatre Company Presents a Bold New THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Comic timing is essential in Shakespeare, and this cast is up to the task. Andre De Shields, triple-cast as Gremio/Vincentio/Curtis, is an expert at dying a slow, drawn-out death.