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Is Oprah Headed To Broadway?

The ESSENCE March cover girl is reportedly in talks to star in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Night, Mother.
Is Oprah Headed To Broadway?
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By Yolanda Sangweni · Updated October 27, 2020
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Oprah could be taking a turn on the Great White Way in 2015.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the ESSENCE March cover girl is reportedly in talks to star in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Night, Mother opposite Tony winner Audra McDonald. If it’s a go, Oprah would make her Broadway acting debut in the 2015-16 season.

The play would be produced by the Scott Sanders, who’s also working with Oprah to bring The Color Purple musical back to Broadway later this year.

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African-American Tony winner George C. Wolfe would direct the play.

Asked if she’d ever consider Broadway, Oprah said “I’d just like to be in the space where I really feel like I have nothing to prove.”

TOPICS:  Oprah Winfrey