Funnyman Rock Set For Broadway Debut
Comedian Chris Rock is set to make his Broadway debut next year (11) in a new play about love, addiction and fidelity.
Rock will appear opposite Bobby Cannavale, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vazquez for a 14-week engagement of Stephen Adly Guirgis' play The Motherf**ker With the Hat.
The play follows Cannavale's character Jackie, a parolee who is newly sober, and his girlfriend, who is not. Rock will play Jackie's sponsor.
Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro will direct the play, which is set to begin previews on 22 March (11).
Meanwhile in other Broadway related news stars Kendrick Jones and Jon Michael Hill are among nominees for the inaugural Clive Barnes Awards, in honor of the celebrated theater and dance critic.
The Scottsboro Boys star Jones and Hill of Superior Donuts have been nominated alongside fellow acting newcomers Nina Arianda of Venus in Fur and Noah Robbins of Secrets of the Trade for the prizegiving.
The event honors one winner in the two categories of acting and dance, and the finalists for the latter include Aaron Carr (Keigwin + Company), Hee Seo (American Ballet Theater) and Leann Underwood (American Ballet Theater), reports Variety.
The non-profit Clive Barnes Foundation established the ceremony following the death of the famed theater and dance critic, who died in 2008 at the age of 81.
Barnes' work appeared in the New York Times, the New York Post and many other publications.
His widow, Valerie Taylor Barnes, gathered a "strong-minded panel" to pick finalists for the awards ceremony, which will be held on 9 November (10) at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater.
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