Tag: Tonya Pinkins
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Directs ‘Raisin in the Sun,’ Running Oct. 22-Nov. 12 at South Coast Repertory
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Khanisha Foster ’02, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, directs a new production of Lorraine Hansberry‘s classic American drama A Raisin in the Sun for South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California. The play runs October 22 through November 12 at SCR’s Julianne Argyros Stage,…
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Tony Award-Winning Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins Named Chair of Theatre at Fordham College at Lincoln Center
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department warmly congratulates Columbia College Chicago alum Tonya Pinkins ’96 — Tony Award-winning star of such Broadway musicals as Caroline, or Change and Jelly’s Last Jam — on her appointment as the Denzel Washington Chair of Theatre at Fordham College at Lincoln Center in New York City starting in the…
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Tony Award-Winning Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins Stars in ‘Raisin in the Sun’ at New York’s Public Theatre Sept. 27-Nov. 6
Columbia College Chicago alum Tonya Pinkins ’96 — Tony Award-winning star of such Broadway musicals as Caroline, or Change and Jelly’s Last Jam — will star in the Public Theatre’s off-Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry‘s groundbreaking drama A Raisin in the Sun September 27 through November 6 at the Public’s Newman Theatre, located at 425…
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Tony Award-Winning Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins To Star in ABC’s ‘The Women of the Movement’
Columbia College Chicago alum Tonya Pinkins ’96 — Tony Award-winning star of such Broadway musicals as Caroline, or Change and Jelly’s Last Jam — will co-star in ABC’s upcoming limited series The Women of the Movement, according to a report from the show-business news site Playbill. Pinkins will portray the grandmother of Emmett Till, the…
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Tony Award-Winning Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins Wins League of Professional Theatre Women’s 2020 Rachel Crothers Leadership Award
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department congratulates Columbia College Chicago alum Tonya Pinkins ’96 — Tony Award-winning star of such Broadway musicals as Caroline, or Change and Jelly’s Last Jam — on receiving the 2020 Rachel Crothers Leadership Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, the premier New York organization advocating for opportunity and…
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(VIDEO) Tony Award-Winning Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins Stars in Moliere’s ‘School for Wives’ Online Free Through Oct. 28
Tony Award-winning Columbia College Chicago alum Tonya Pinkins ’96 stars in a reimagined version of Moliere’s classic 1662 comedy The School for Wives, accessible for free on YouTube through October 28. The production is presented by Moliere in the Park with the French Institute Alliance Française in partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance, LeFrak…
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Columbia College Chicago Alum Tonya Pinkins Stars in Off-Broadway ‘Mother Courage’ Musical
Tony Award-winning actress Tonya Pinkins (BA ’96), a graduate of Columbia College Chicago (and a native of Chicago, where she attended Whitney Young Magnet High School before going to Columbia), will star Off-Broadway in Mother Courage and Her Children, a new musical adaptation of Bertolt Brecht‘s antiwar drama. The show is presented by the…