The day of the event, December 18, was also the 106th birthday of Ossie Davis (1917-2005). Purlie Victorious is now playing at The Music Box Theatre through February 4th, 2024.

Raiford Chatman “Ossie” Davis, the actor, civil rights activist, writer, producer and director who carved out a career as one of the most distinguished actors and public figures of the 20th ...

‘Purlie Victorious’ Broadway Review: Leslie Odom Jr. Gives Ossie Davis’ Preacher a Brilliant Encore Kenny Leon directs a comic riot that is the season’s funniest show on Broadway ...

One of Harlem’s greatest heroes was laid to rest last Saturday as scores of family members, celebrities, politicians and friends crowded into Riverside Church to say goodbye to the late Ossie ...

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 ...

Ossie Davis’s satirical play “Purlie Victorious” opened at the Cort Theater in September 1961 with Davis as the charismatic preacher Purlie Victorious Judson and Ruby Dee, his artistic ...

Review: Satire Comes in All Colors in Ossie Davis’s ‘Purlie Victorious’ Led by Leslie Odom Jr. as a conniving preacher with a conscience, this revival of a 1961 satire of the old South has ...

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.

NEW YORK Ossie Davis, the imposing, unshakable actor who championed racial justice on stage, on screen and in real life, often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee, has died. He was 87. Davis was found ...

OSSIE DAVIS, who died last week in Miami Beach, at 87, was an actor, playwright, film director and civil rights spokesman who invested each role with passion and purity.

Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.

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 ...