Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ossie Davis in Do the Right Thing You know, when I wrote my article on the best Sidney Poitier movies, I knew I would eventually ...

Long before Slave Play, decades before Ain’t No Mo, there was Purlie Victorious, the Ossie Davis comedy masterwork that, like those descendant plays, fused broad comedy, satirical minstrelsy, racial ...

Tony & Grammy winner Leslie Odom, Jr. will star in a new Broadway production of the classic American comedy Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch by Ossie Davis. Purlie ...

The first revival of Ossie Davis' satire on the Jim Crow south, Purlie Victorious: A Romp Through the Non-Confederate Cotton Patch, is opening on Broadway after a 62-year absence. But the play is no ...

An essay by Roger Rosenblatt on the life of actor/activist Ossie Davis who died on February 5th at the age of 87. A look back at the man who was a central figure among black performers for many ...

He had something in him–the rich baritone and the gaze that saw all and feared nothing–that suggested God on a day full of promise and threat. OSSIE DAVIS, who died last week in Miami Beach, at 87, ...

PELHAM, N.Y. -- They're an ageless couple, products of a world of art and protest that seems long gone now. To hear Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee tell it, the '40s and '50s were beautiful, a time to ...

We previously reported that in their memoir “With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together,” Ruby and Ossie note that “extramarital sex was not what really destroyed marriages, but rather the lies and ...

Leslie Odom Jr. will return to Broadway for the first time since dazzling theater fans with his electrifying turn as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton.” The Tony Award winner will appear in a new Broadway ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The stars Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young and the director Kenny Leon discuss the revival, and why its satirical take on racism is still so timely. By ...