You know, when I wrote my article on the best Sidney Poitier movies, I knew I would eventually get to Ossie Davis (birth name, Raiford Chatman Davis), as how could I not? Besides being featured in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Has there ever been a more outrageous, rambunctious, over-the-top and, in the end, downright joyous production of a play staged on Broadway? Oh, to be able to go back to the opening night in 1961 at ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - The stars of Hollywood joined the people of Harlem to bid farewell Saturday to actor and activist Ossie Davis, filling a Manhattan church with laughter and tears as a parade of admirers ...

SINCE HIS APPEARANCE at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, everyone inside the Beltway has been in a tizzy over Ozzy Osbourne. But today, I’d like to change the subject from Ozzy to Ossie.

Nobody did it better than Ossie Davis. Nobody. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You know, when I wrote my article on the best ...