Exclusive: Bmf star Da’Vinchi has signed with Independent Artist Group for representation in all areas. The signing reunites the actor with his previous agency APA.
Da’Vinchi portrays drug kingpin Terry “Southwest T” Flenory in Bmf, the Starz drama series from executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. He stars opposite Demetrius Flenory Jr., who plays Demetrius “Meech” Flenory, Terry’s older brother.
Based on a true story, Bmf chronicles the unconventional journey to success of the Flenory brothers, who rose from the depths of poverty, navigating the war on drugs in Detroit to become game changers in hip-hop and culture. Season 3 premieres on March 1.
Additional TV credits include major recurring roles on the CW series All American and Grown-ish for Freeform.
On the film side, Da’Vinchi most recently led the Mary J. Blige-produced TV movies Real Love and Strength of a Woman for Lifetime. He was also part...
Da’Vinchi portrays drug kingpin Terry “Southwest T” Flenory in Bmf, the Starz drama series from executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. He stars opposite Demetrius Flenory Jr., who plays Demetrius “Meech” Flenory, Terry’s older brother.
Based on a true story, Bmf chronicles the unconventional journey to success of the Flenory brothers, who rose from the depths of poverty, navigating the war on drugs in Detroit to become game changers in hip-hop and culture. Season 3 premieres on March 1.
Additional TV credits include major recurring roles on the CW series All American and Grown-ish for Freeform.
On the film side, Da’Vinchi most recently led the Mary J. Blige-produced TV movies Real Love and Strength of a Woman for Lifetime. He was also part...
- 1/11/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
In our Q&a series Popsugar Crush, we get to know some of our favorite celebs' more intimate details - from their signature scent to their perfect date night. This month, we're crushing on "The Chi" star Luke James.
Luke James loves a challenge. That much is evident from the singer-actor's accomplished onscreen career. From portraying music icon Johnny Gill in BET's "The New Edition Story" to R&b bad boy Noah Brooks in Fox's hit musical series "Star," James has taken on a handful of roles through the years that have propelled him from an acting novice to a pro. One of his most notable roles to date is in Lena Waithe's "The Chi," the all-too-relatable Showtime drama that depicts the struggles of a group of South Side Chicago residents, all linked by coincidence but bonded by their common circumstances.
The show returns for its two-part sixth season,...
Luke James loves a challenge. That much is evident from the singer-actor's accomplished onscreen career. From portraying music icon Johnny Gill in BET's "The New Edition Story" to R&b bad boy Noah Brooks in Fox's hit musical series "Star," James has taken on a handful of roles through the years that have propelled him from an acting novice to a pro. One of his most notable roles to date is in Lena Waithe's "The Chi," the all-too-relatable Showtime drama that depicts the struggles of a group of South Side Chicago residents, all linked by coincidence but bonded by their common circumstances.
The show returns for its two-part sixth season,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Njera Perkins
- Popsugar.com
Back in February, the new play “Thoughts of a Colored Man” installed its marquee at the Golden Theatre, an encouraging sign almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic that the frost on Broadway was about to thaw. Keenan Scott II’s allegorical drama has finally arrived, debuting at the Golden on Oct. 13 under the direction of Steve H. Broadnax III.
Featuring an ensemble of seven actors – each representing a different emotion from happiness to depression, love, anger, and beyond – “Thoughts of a Colored Man” unfolds as a series of vignettes of prose, poetry, and song set over the course of a day in a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood. Those seven actors are Dyllón Burnside, Bryan Terrell Clark, Da’Vinchi, Luke James, Forrest McClendon, Esau Pritchett, and Tristan ‘Mack’ Wilds. Its form has drawn comparisons to Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” a landmark...
Featuring an ensemble of seven actors – each representing a different emotion from happiness to depression, love, anger, and beyond – “Thoughts of a Colored Man” unfolds as a series of vignettes of prose, poetry, and song set over the course of a day in a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood. Those seven actors are Dyllón Burnside, Bryan Terrell Clark, Da’Vinchi, Luke James, Forrest McClendon, Esau Pritchett, and Tristan ‘Mack’ Wilds. Its form has drawn comparisons to Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” a landmark...
- 10/14/2021
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
This Broadway season, as stop and start as it has been, has been blessed with some truly stellar moments – and spotted with blessedly fewer disappointments. The vibrant Pass Over was an ideal curtain raiser for an industry waking up. Lackawanna Blues felt like a tonic, and Is This A Room is as wrenching a work of art as any with roots in the Trump era to date.
And as worthy of applause as those productions were and are, all feel a bit like preamble to Keenan Scott II’s remarkable Thoughts of a Colored Man opens, the first fully realized reflection of the shutdown era. A play of immense compassion and keen insight, with a vise-grip on the dreams and disappointments of its characters, Thoughts of a Colored Man is a paean to life as both survival and celebration, a tribute and exploration of the Black men who find beauty,...
And as worthy of applause as those productions were and are, all feel a bit like preamble to Keenan Scott II’s remarkable Thoughts of a Colored Man opens, the first fully realized reflection of the shutdown era. A play of immense compassion and keen insight, with a vise-grip on the dreams and disappointments of its characters, Thoughts of a Colored Man is a paean to life as both survival and celebration, a tribute and exploration of the Black men who find beauty,...
- 10/14/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Thoughts of a Colored Man, the new Broadway play by Keenan Scott II and directed by Steve Broadnax III, is moving up its official Broadway opening by more than two weeks, with the new opening date now on Wednesday, October 13.
The play at Broadway’s Golden Theatre had previously been set to open Oct. 31. No reason was giving for the date change, but such moves have been relatively commonplace this fall season as numerous Broadway productions juggle their openings and re-openings following the industry’s recent return from the Covid pandemic shutdown.
Thoughts of a Colored Man features an ensemble cast including Dyllón Burnside (Pose), Bryan Terrell Clark (Hamilton), Da’Vinchi (Starz’s upcoming Black Mafia Family), Luke James (The Chi), Forrest McClendon (The Scottsboro Boys), Tristan Mack Wilds (The Wire) and Esau Pritchett (Prodigal Son). The play is produced by Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana Dimenna, Kandi Burruss, Sheryl Lee Ralph,...
The play at Broadway’s Golden Theatre had previously been set to open Oct. 31. No reason was giving for the date change, but such moves have been relatively commonplace this fall season as numerous Broadway productions juggle their openings and re-openings following the industry’s recent return from the Covid pandemic shutdown.
Thoughts of a Colored Man features an ensemble cast including Dyllón Burnside (Pose), Bryan Terrell Clark (Hamilton), Da’Vinchi (Starz’s upcoming Black Mafia Family), Luke James (The Chi), Forrest McClendon (The Scottsboro Boys), Tristan Mack Wilds (The Wire) and Esau Pritchett (Prodigal Son). The play is produced by Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana Dimenna, Kandi Burruss, Sheryl Lee Ralph,...
- 10/4/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Prodigal Son actor Esau Pritchett has joined the cast of Broadway’s upcoming Thoughts of a Colored Man, replacing Keith David, who is leaving the production due to a private family matter.
The cast change was announced today by producers Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana Dimenna, Kandi Burruss, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Samira Wiley, The Shubert Organization, and The Nederlander Organization.
“The company of Thoughts of a Colored Man supports The David Family during this time,” Moreland said in a statement, “and we are also elated to welcome a new member to the family.” Details about David’s family matter were not disclosed.
Pritchett, who made his Broadway debut in a 2010 Lincoln Center Theater production of John Guare’s A Free Man Of Color, is best known to TV audiences for his recurring roles on Fox’s Prodigal Son and the Starz Network drama Power: Book II Raising Kanaan.
Thoughts of a Colored Man,...
The cast change was announced today by producers Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana Dimenna, Kandi Burruss, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Samira Wiley, The Shubert Organization, and The Nederlander Organization.
“The company of Thoughts of a Colored Man supports The David Family during this time,” Moreland said in a statement, “and we are also elated to welcome a new member to the family.” Details about David’s family matter were not disclosed.
Pritchett, who made his Broadway debut in a 2010 Lincoln Center Theater production of John Guare’s A Free Man Of Color, is best known to TV audiences for his recurring roles on Fox’s Prodigal Son and the Starz Network drama Power: Book II Raising Kanaan.
Thoughts of a Colored Man,...
- 9/22/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Kandi Burruss, the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and The Chi actress, has joined the producing team for the upcoming Broadway debut of Keenan Scott II’s Thoughts of a Colored Man starring Pose‘s Dyllón Burnside.
Burruss, who appeared in the 2009 season of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is now part of the Broadway producing team led by Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana Dimenna, Samira Wiley, Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization.
“As we know, the best theater holds a mirror up and reflects the world to us,” Burruss said in a statement. “Thoughts of a Colored Man does something that is quietly revolutionary: it holds a mirror up to Black men and shows everyone the strong, wonderful, funny, caring, vulnerable, emotionally complex people that they are.” She added that the play “speaks to everyone regardless of gender, race, or age.”
Thoughts of a Colored...
Burruss, who appeared in the 2009 season of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is now part of the Broadway producing team led by Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana Dimenna, Samira Wiley, Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization.
“As we know, the best theater holds a mirror up and reflects the world to us,” Burruss said in a statement. “Thoughts of a Colored Man does something that is quietly revolutionary: it holds a mirror up to Black men and shows everyone the strong, wonderful, funny, caring, vulnerable, emotionally complex people that they are.” She added that the play “speaks to everyone regardless of gender, race, or age.”
Thoughts of a Colored...
- 6/18/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Thoughts of a Colored Man, the new play by Keenan Scott II, will begin performances at Broadway’s Golden Theatre on Friday, October 1, opening Sunday, Oct. 31, with an ensemble cast that includes Dyllón Burnside (FX’s Pose), Bryan Terrell Clark (Hamilton), Da’Vinchi (Showtime’s upcoming Black Mafia Family), Luke James (Showtime’s The Chi), Forrest McClendon (The Scottsboro Boys), Tristan “Mack” Wilds (HBO’s The Wire), and Keith David.
The dates and cast were announced today by producers Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana Dimenna, Samira Wiley, Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Shubert Organization, and The Nederlander Organization.
The limited engagement, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, will be the first new play on Broadway following the shutdown.
Tickets for the production will go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 18.
As described by the production: “As the sun rises on a single day in the pulsing heart of Brooklyn,...
The dates and cast were announced today by producers Brian Moreland, Ron Simons, Diana Dimenna, Samira Wiley, Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Shubert Organization, and The Nederlander Organization.
The limited engagement, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, will be the first new play on Broadway following the shutdown.
Tickets for the production will go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 18.
As described by the production: “As the sun rises on a single day in the pulsing heart of Brooklyn,...
- 5/24/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Connecticut Repertory Theatre Crt presents the second and final show of the 2019 Nutmeg Summer Series Cabaret, the Tony-Award-winning musical centering around a German nightclub against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power. The cast is led by Olivier Award-winner Laura Michelle Kelly as Sally Bowles and Tony Award-nominee Forrest McClendon as the Emcee. They will be joined by three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty and Jonathan Brody. Scott Lafeber will direct with choreography by Christopher d'Amboise. Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale at crt.uconn.edu or 860-486-2113.
- 7/6/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Connecticut Repertory Theatre Crt presents the second and final show of the 2019 Nutmeg Summer Series Cabaret, the Tony-Award-winning musical centering around a German nightclub against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power. The cast will be led by Olivier Award-winner Laura Michelle Kelly Broadway's Mary Poppins, Finding Neverland as Sally Bowles and Tony Award-nominee Forrest McClendon The Scottsboro Boys as the Emcee. They will be joined by three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty Broadway's The Will Rogers Follies, Footloose and Jonathan Brody Broadway's Spamalot, A Bronx Tale. Scott Lafeber will direct with choreography by Christopher d'Amboise. Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale at crt.uconn.edu or 860-486-2113.
- 6/29/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Connecticut Repertory Theatre Crt announces casting for the second production of the 2019 Nutmeg Summer Series Cabaret, the Tony-Award-winning musical centering around a German nightclub against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power. The cast will be led by Olivier Award-winner Laura Michelle Kelly Broadway's Mary Poppins, Finding Neverland as Sally Bowles and Tony Award-nominee Forrest McClendon The Scottsboro Boys as the Emcee.
- 4/17/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
On May 1, the Broadway production of “Mean Girls,” based on the popular 2004 movie, earned a whopping 12 Tony nominations and became the most-nominated show of the year alongside musical “SpongeBob Squarepants.” In the wake of the awards being handed out on June 10, “Mean Girls” tied for another record, albeit one more dubious. By going 0-for-12 at the Tonys, “Mean Girls” ties the all-time record for most nominations without a single win.
See 2018 Tonys: ‘The Band’s Visit’ wins 10 including Best Musical, ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ takes 6 including Best Play
Tina Fey, who wrote the film, adapted her work for the stage with her husband Jeff Richmond contributing an original score and Tony-winner Casey Nicholaw providing both the direction and choreography. Along with Best Musical, “Mean Girls” earned nominations for Best Actress (Taylor Louderman), Featured Actor (Grey Henson), Featured Actress (Ashley Park), Book of a Musical, Original Score, Direction, Choreography,...
See 2018 Tonys: ‘The Band’s Visit’ wins 10 including Best Musical, ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ takes 6 including Best Play
Tina Fey, who wrote the film, adapted her work for the stage with her husband Jeff Richmond contributing an original score and Tony-winner Casey Nicholaw providing both the direction and choreography. Along with Best Musical, “Mean Girls” earned nominations for Best Actress (Taylor Louderman), Featured Actor (Grey Henson), Featured Actress (Ashley Park), Book of a Musical, Original Score, Direction, Choreography,...
- 6/11/2018
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
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