For the first time in at least 15 years, the waters gushed from the central fountain at Ethel Waters Park along Commission Street in Chester and the city was there Saturday to celebrate it. For the ...
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Ethel Waters was a popular blues, jazz and gospel singer and Oscar-nominated actress often credited with helping open the doors for other African-Americans in entertainment. She was also the first ...
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In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those who came before ...
ALBANY, N.Y. — For Jannie Jones, portraying Ethel Waters on stage is more than a role. It’s a calling. Jones created the role of Ethel Waters in the original production of “Ethel Waters: His Eye is on ...
Playwright Larry Parr says some kind of outside power must have guided him to create a biographical musical about singer and actress Ethel Waters. A series of unrelated conversations, meetings and ...
In less than a year, Jannie Jones has played two leading women in history. After an impressive star turn last year as Mahalia Jackson in the N.C. Black Repertory Company's Mahalia Jackson, Queen of ...
Ethel Waters- vocals; Joe Smith- cornet; Bunny Berigan, Sterling Bose, Manny Klein, Shirley Clay, Charlie Teagarden- trumpet; Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey- trombone; Jimmy Dorsey- clarinet, alto ...
The Delray Beach Playhouse is presenting Ethel Waters: His Eye Is on the Sparrow. This play documents the life of Broadway gem Ethel Waters. She was born into extreme poverty, her mother a victim of ...
The coming days mark birth anniversaries of two surpassing singers of American song—Ethel Waters’s 125th birthday and Mahalia Jackson’s 110th. As Black women, both performers bravely breached multiple ...
ALBANY – You might not leave Capital Repertory Theatre’s production of “Ethel Waters: His Eye Is On the Sparrow” caring deeply about the title character, but you will leave falling in love with Jannie ...
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