John Legend Joins Broadway Producing Team For August Wilson's 'Jitney'
John Legend, who’s increasingly using his stature as a Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and songwriter (for “Glory,” co-written with Common for the film Selma) to promote theater projects that align with his social activism, has signed on as a co-producer of the upcoming Broadway premiere of August Wilson’s Jitney. The play, one of the best in the late playwright’s “Pittsburgh Cycle…