PhotosAs He Readies For His Latest Broadway Return, We Celebrate Over 50 Years of James Earl Jones Onstage半岛体育.com takes a look at James Earl Jones' stage triumphs in a career spanning over 50 years. The acclaimed actor returns to Broadway with Cicely Tyson in a revival of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game. Previews begin Sept. 23 at the Golden Theatre.
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Joseph Marzullo
August 31, 2015
Jones won Tonys for and and received additional nominations for and 's
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Celebrate Over 60 Years of James Earl Jones On Stage
Celebrate Over 60 Years of James Earl Jones On Stage
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Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones in Jean Genet's The Blacks, at St, Mark's Playhouse in 1961.
James Earl Jones and Julienne Marie in Othello at Shakespeare in the Park, 1964
James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope at Arena Stage, 1967
James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope on Broadway, 1968
James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope on Broadway, 1968
Directed by , The Gin Game will officially open Oct. 14. The limited run is scheduled through Jan. 10, 2016. Rehearsals began Aug. 17.
Tyson and Jones will be sharing a Broadway stage for the first time since 1966, when they appeared in A Hand Is On The Gate at the Longacre Theatre. They also appeared together in the long-running Off-Broadway production of 鈥檚 The Blacks; Moon On a Rainbow Shawl and the films "The Comedians"; "The River Niger" and "Heat Wave".
Tickets are on sale聽via Telecharge at (212) 239-6200 or (800) 447-7400 or online at . The production will feature set and costume design by , lighting design by and and sound design by David Van Tieghem.
"Weller Martin (James Earl Jones) and Fonsia Dorsey (Cicely Tyson) meet on the porch of their nursing home and strike up a friendship, with Weller teaching Fonsia how to play gin rummy," according to press notes. "As they play, they share stories about the lives they led in the outside world. But when Fonsia wins every hand, Weller becomes increasingly frustrated, until their gin games and conversations become a battleground, with each player exposing the other鈥檚 failures, disappointments and insecurities."
The Gin Game returns to the Golden Theatre where the original production opened in 1977, starring and . The play last appeared on Broadway in 1997, in a production starring and . The Gin Game has also been filmed twice for television; in 1981 with original stars Cronyn and Tandy, and in 2003 with and .
The Broadway revival will be produced by OSTAR Productions.聽
The Golden Theatre is located at 252 West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.
