By Douglas Mayo
T'Shan Williams is to play Celie in The Color Purple tour presented by Curve Leicester and Birmingham Hippodrome in June 2019.
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It was recently announced that T'Shan Williams will play the role of Celie at the upcoming Curve, Leicester and Birmingham Hippodrome production of The Color Purple.
Get ready for a Cynthia Erivo world takeover. The big-voiced Brit has a Live from Lincoln Center solo concert airing on PBS on May 10. "That night felt amazing! Now I get to relive it and sh…
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Seyi Omooba was recently dropped from the cast of Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome's revival of musical The Color Purple after homophobic comme…
BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature…
Oluwaseyi Omooba, who had been cast as Celie, a queer character, in the revival by the Curve Theatre in Leicester and the Birmingham Hippodrome in England, wrote on the social media site fiv…
Curve Leicester's Chris Stafford and Nikolai Foster and Birmingham Hippodrome's Fiona Allan have stated that Seyi Omooba, due to play Celie in the theatres' forthcoming co-production of The …
By Douglas Mayo
Seyi Omooba hyas been removed from the forthcoming tour of The Color Purple following a storm over homophobic remarks posted on Twitter.
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Last Friday, on Twitter, Hamilton actor Aaron Lee Lambert shared a screenshot of a Facebook post by Oluwaseyi Seyi Omooba - who had just been announced as playing Celie in Leicester Curve an…
Alice Saville writes on what 'The Color Purple' casting controversy says about theatre producers' attitudes towards queer actors, and queer audiences.
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Magic. Magnificent. Marvelous. There are only so many superlatives I can muster in such a small space, but The Color Purple, now running at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, is pheno…
Last Friday, on Twitter, Hamilton actor Aaron Lee Lambert shared a screenshot of a Facebook post by Oluwaseyi Seyi Omooba - who had just been announced as playing Celie in Leicester Curve an…
Oluwaseyi Omooba had just landed the starring role of the upcoming Curve Leicester and Birmingham Hippodrome production of The Color Purple when an old Facebook post of her resurfaced.
