Phylicia Rashad to Helm August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the CTG/Mark Taper Forum at The Music Center, April 24 – June 9, 2013

Tony award winning actress and acclaimed theater director Phylicia Rashad is at the helm of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, which begins previews April 24, 2013 at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum At the Music Center (135 N. Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A.), and continues through June 9, 2013. The opening night performance is on May 8 at 8 p.m.

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is set in 1911 in a Pittsburgh boarding house, where tenants come and go, forming a community that is altered time and time again. The daily routine of meals, conversation, gossip, arrivals and departures, and the changes that occur within this fluid grouping of people, is set against a great tide of Americans of African descent, only 50 years out of bondage, who are moving toward the industrial cities of the North in search of economic opportunity, lost family members and new beginnings.

Phylicia Rashad. Photo by Lia Chang

Phylicia Rashad became a household name for her portrayal of Claire Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” for over two decades. Rashad received a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Lena Younger in the 2004 Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which was the first time in Tony history that an African-American actress won in this category. Her other Broadway credits include August: Osage County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Gem of the Ocean (she starred in the world premiere production at the CTG/Mark Taper Forum in 2003), Jelly’s Last Jam, Into the Woods, Dreamgirls and The Wiz and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline at Lincoln Center.

Offstage, Rashad teaches masters classes at Howard University, The Julliard School and Carnegie Mellon University. Well-respected in the academic world, Rashad has received the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre from Fordham University. Rashad also holds honorary doctorates from Fordham University, Carnegie Mellon University, Howard University, Providence College, Morris Brown College, Clark Atlanta University, Barber Scotia College, St. Augustine’s College, and Brown University.

Rashad currently serves on the advisory board of the PRASAD Projects, the True Colors Theatre, Broadway Inspirational Voices, the Actors Center, the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and the ADEPT Center.

Schedule
Previews (April 24-May 7): Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Exceptions: No 1 p.m. performance on Sunday, May 5.
Opens Wednesday, May 8 at 8 p.m.
Regular Performances (May 9-June 9):
Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. No Monday performances.
Exceptions: No public performances May 21-24 (student matinees only).

Tickets are $20 – $ 70 and are available by calling (213) 628-2772, online at www.CenterTheatreGroup.org, in person at the Center Theatre Group box office. Hot Tix: $20 each may be purchased in advance or, subject to availability, on the day of performance at the box office (no checks). Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum At the Music Center is located at 135 N. Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A. 90012.

Lia Chang

Lia Chang is an actor, a performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist.

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Lia Chang Photos: Phylicia Rashad, Michael McElroy, Marva Hicks in Broadway Inspirational Voices “Wondrous Grace” Concert at the Central Presbyterian Church in NY

Broadway Inspirational Voices, a popular gospel choir made up of Broadway singers, raised the roof during Wondrous Grace, their “summer celebration of song,” at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York on June 20, 2011. © 2011 Lia Chang

Last night, I sat in a pew between actress Denise Burse (Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne”) and award-winning playwright and actor Daniel Beaty at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York, where we witnessed Broadway Inspirational Voices, a popular gospel choir made up of Broadway singers, raise the roof during Wondrous Grace, their “summer celebration of song.”

Marva Hicks and Phylicia Rashad © 2011 Lia Chang

Marva Hicks, Virginia A. Woodruff, Lisa Lynne Mathis, Bradley Dean, Avis D. Graves, Clarke Thorell, Marcus Paul James, Eliseo Roman, Angela Robinson, John Eric Parker and Bertilla Baker Thompson were among the singers whose divine solo talents were on display in this glorious and inspiring evening of gospel music.

Tony Award winners Phylicia Rashad (A Raisin in the Sun) and Adriane Lenox (Doubt) appeared in the concert, along with Montego Glover from Memphis, and cast members from Broadway shows including The Lion King, The Book of Mormon, Baby It’s You, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Sister Act.

Angela Robinson and Renee Elise Goldsberry Photo credit: © Lia Chang

Below is the lineup of songs sung during the concert.
Act I
“Song of Praise:
“Excellent Lord” Solo: Virgina A. Woodruff
“You Are An Heir”
“I Have Had Singing”
“He Will Answer” Solo: Lisa Lynne Mathis
“I Call You Faithful” Soloists: Marva Hicks, Bradley Dean
“His Blood Still Works” Solo: Avis D. Graves
“Faithful To Believe” Soloists: Clarke Thorell, Marcus Paul James

Act II
“Sung Unto The Lord” Solo: Eliseo Roman
Djeme solo: Clancy
“Ain’ta That Good News”
“I Give You Praise” Solo: Ken Robinson
“Grace” Soloists: Angela Robinson, Lisa Lynne Mathis, John Eric Parker
“I Surrender All” Piano Solo: Joseph Joubert
“I Surrender”
“He’ll Make It All Right” Solo: Bertilla Baker Thompson
“Your Latter Will Be Greater”

Paula Newsome Photo credit: © Lia Chang

Sopranos: Section Leader-Montego Glover, Terry Burrell, Laura Dean, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Celisse Henderson, Kimberly JaJuan, Gerti Lee James, Chelsea Krombach, Tasha Michelle, Paula Newsome, Angela Robinson, Christina Acosta Robinson, Tanesha Gary-Stickney, Nicole Sutherland, Anne Fraser Thomas, Danielle K. Thomas, Robin S. Walker, Schele Williams-Kleinberger, Virginia A. Woodruff

Danielle Lee Greaves Photo credit: © 2011 Lia Chang

Altos: Section Leader-Danielle Chambers, Bertilla Baker Thompson, Angela DeCicco, Eileen Kaden Dean, Aja Graves, Avid D. Graves, Danielle Lee Greaves, Angela Grovey, Marva Hicks, Zonya Johnson, Crystal Joy, Angela Lockett, Lisa Lynne Mathis, Terri O’Neil, Phylicia Rashad, Rema Webb

Kevyn Morrow and Terry Burrell Photo credit: © 2011 Lia Chang

Tenor/Bass: Section Leader-Chris Zelno, Alvin Crawford, Wilson Cruz, Bradley Dean, Wade Elkins, Robert H. Fowler, Marcus Paul James, Miles Johnson, Monroe Kent III, Adriane Lenox, Travis Morin, Kevyn Morrow, Jesse Nager, John Eric Parker, Ken Robinson, Eliseo Roman, Michael James Scott, C.E. Smith, Clarke Thorell

Broadway Inspirational Voices, a popular gospel choir made up of Broadway singers had the standing room only audience on their feet during Wondrous Grace, their “summer celebration of song,” at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York on June 20, 2011. Photo credit: © Lia Chang

Marva Hicks and Michael McElroy, founder and director of Broadway Inspirational Voices, at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York on June 20, 2011. Photo credit: © Lia Chang

Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV) is a 501 © not-for-profit organization. With Founder and Director, Tony-nominated actor Michael McElroy (Rent, Big River), the mission of Broadway Inspirational Voices is to raise awareness, provide spiritual support, and to help raise funds for people in need. Founded by McElroy in 1994 as the Broadway Gospel Choir, the group was reincarnated as the Broadway Inspirational Voices in 1999. The multi-ethnic choir of singers, actors and dancers are comprised of some of the top performers on Broadway, in national tours, and regional theatre. BIV uses the power of music in rousing live concerts, benefits, and a dynamic outreach program for children and teens to inspire creativity and promote a message of tolerance, understanding, and respect for cultural diversity through the arts.
http://broadwayinspirationalvoices.com/

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Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden. Lia currently plays Nurse Lia on “One Life to Live”. She has appeared in Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and “New York Undercover”.

Selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space are in the newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

Lia Chang Photos: David Duchovny, John Earl Jelks, Amanda Peet and Tracee Chimo celebrate opening in Neil LaBute’s The Break of Noon

Tracee Chimo, David Duchovny, Amanda Peet and John Earl Jelks at the opening night curtain call of MCC Theater's world premiere of Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon at the Lucille Lortel in New York on November 22, 2010. Photo by Lia Chang

At the Lucille Lortel in New York on Monday, November 22, David Duchovny (“Californication,” “X-Files”) made his New York stage debut in the MCC Theater’s world premiere of Tony Award nominee Neil LaBute’s The Break of Noon, as an average Joe turned modern-day prophet, alongside Tony Award nominee John Earl Jelks (Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean), Amanda Peet (Barefoot in the Park, “Studio Sixty”) and Tracee Chimo (Bachelorette, Circle Mirror Transformation).

Gillian Anderson flew in from London to surprise her X-Files co-star as he made his New York stage debut in Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, currently playing at The Lucille Lortel. Photo by Lia Chang

Gillian Anderson, who flew in from London to surprise her “X-Files” co-star, and Duchovny’s wife Tea Leoni were in the audience and at the afterparty at 49 Grove, along with Stafford Arima, Eric Bogosian, YaYa DaCosta, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ben Stiller and his wife Christine Taylor, Patrick Breen, Tovah Feldshuh, Ed Harris, Jessica Hecht, Tina Louise, Lynn Nottage, Jose Rivera, Sara Paulson, Steven Pasquale, Thomas Sadowski, Garry Shandling, Jeremy Sisto and his wife Addie Lane.

The Break of Noon is Neil LaBute’s seventh collaboration with MCC Theater as Playwright-in-Residence, following the 2009 Tony Award-nominated Best Play, Reasons to be Pretty. Renowned for his darkly-comic morality plays (The Shape of Things, In a Dark Dark House), teamed up again with longtime collaborator, director Jo Bonney (Some Girl(s), Fat Pig), to helm his exploration of the daunting, sometimes harrowing process of “finding religion.”

Tracee Chimo, Amanda Peet, David Duchovny and John Earl Jelks Photo by Lia Chang

The Break of Noon has been extended through December 22, 2010 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC). A co-production with the Geffen Playhouse, The Break of Noon will arrive in Los Angeles in January 2011.

John Earl Jelks and David Duchovny Photo by Lia Chang

Performances are Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 & 7:30 p.m. through December 12, 2010.

The show will play the following schedule for the extension due to the holiday:
Tuesday, December 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 15 at 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 16 at 8:00 p.m.
Friday, December 17 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 18 at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Sunday. December 19 at 3:00 p.m.
Monday, December 20 at 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 21 at 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 22 at 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.
Subscriptions for MCC’s 2010-2011 season are on-sale now and priced as low as $99 for the 3-play season. For more information visit www.mcctheater.org or to purchase packages, contact TicketCentral directly at www.ticketcentral.com or call 212-279-4200.

John Earl Jelks and YaYa DaCosta walk the red carpet at 49 Grove, the afterparty for Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon on November 22, 2010. Photo by Lia Chang

Thanks to The Break of Noon castmember John Earl Jelks who plays a lawyer and a detective in the show, and who provided me with an all-access pass, you can check out the slideshow below of the curtain call, arrivals and afterparty fun and festivities.

Related John Earl Jelks Clips:
Marilyn Stasio of Variety writes“John Earl Jelks (“Radio Golf”) raises a scornful eyebrow as the lawyer John consults before taking his conversion public. This ultra-poised performer also walks away with the scene in which he plays a detective who suspects that John was somehow behind the attack.”

Dan Bacalzo of theatermania.com writes,
“The always-on-target John Earl Jelks rounds out the cast in the dual roles of John’s lawyer and a police detective who finds some of the details in John’s story rather suspicious.”

Michael Sommers of newjerseynewsroom.com writes, “John Earl Jelks is especially striking as a lawyer who counsels John about his options in the media minefield while licking his own lips over their likely profitability.”
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “John Earl Jelks appears as a cynical lawyer who stands to make a fat fee, and a skeptical cop whose own religious convictions are offended.”

David Cote of Timeoutny.com for ny1.com reports, “John’s lawyer, played with humor and grit by John Earl Jelks, doesn’t seem to believe his client’s conversion story, but is happy to peddle John’s gruesome photos of the crime scene for big bucks.”

MCC Theater artistic director Bernie Telsey, The Break of Noon director Jo Bonney, castmember John Earl Jelks and MCC Theater associate artistic director William Cantler Photo by Lia Chang

MCC Theater is one of New York City’s leading Off Broadway theater companies, committed to presenting New York and world premieres each season. When MCC Theater was founded in 1986, its mission was simple: to bring new theatrical voices to theater-going audiences. MCC Theater continues to accomplish this yearly through presentation of its mainstage works; its Literary Program, which actively seeks and develops new and emerging writers and its Education & Outreach Program, allowing more than 1,200 students yearly to experience theater, increase literacy and discover their own voices in the arts.

John Earl Jelks and Yaya DaCosta who played love interests in the Signature Theatre Company's production of Leslie Lee's The First Breeze of Summer, with their director Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Photo by Lia Chang

Notable MCC Theater highlights include: the 2008 Tony Award-nominated Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute, last season’s Fifty Words, the 2004 Tony-winning production of Bryony Lavery’s Frozen; Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig; Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory of Living; Marsha Norman’s Trudy Blue; Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit; Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone and Alan Bowne’s Beirut. Over the years, the dedication to the work of new and emerging artists has earned MCC Theater a variety of awards. For a complete production history, visit www.mcctheater.org.

Yaya DaCosta, Tea Leoni, John Earl Jelks, David Duchovny and Jessica Hecht Photo by Lia Chang

The Geffen Playhouse has been a hub of the Los Angeles theater scene since opening its doors in 1995. Noted for its intimacy and celebrated for its world-renowned mix of classic and contemporary plays, provocative new works and musicals, the Geffen Playhouse continues to present a body of work that has garnered national recognition. Named in honor of entertainment mogul and philanthropist David Geffen, who made the initial donation to the theater, the company is helmed by Producing Director and President of the Board Gilbert Cates, Artistic Director Randall Arney, Managing Director Ken Novice and Chairman of the Board Frank Mancuso. Proudly associated with UCLA, the Geffen Playhouse welcomes an audience of more than 130,000 each year, and maintains an extensive education and outreach program, designed to engage young people and the community at large in the arts. For more information, visit www.geffenplayhouse.com.

Selected Photo Coverage of Opening Night of Neil LaBute’s The Break of Noon:
broadway.com
broadwayworld.com
daylife.com
slantmagazine.com
AP

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All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2010 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at liachang@hotmail.com.

John Earl Jelks, Lia Chang and Ruben Santiago-Hudson Photo by Charles Richard Barboza

Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.

This year, selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space will become part of newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.