“Ossie Davis gave the American theater an American hero in Purlie Judson,” says Leslie Odom, Jr. “I have loved this piece and its author, Mr. Davis, for well over half my life. His writing ...

The American Theater Group will present “Purlie, A Musical”at the Hamilton Stage in Rahway, weekends, March 6 to 23. The musical, an adaptation of Ossie Davis’s 1970 comedic play “Purlie ...

Magnificent, if there is any justice in the world. Kenny Leon’s supremely well-toned revival of Ossie Davis’ “Purlie Victorious, A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch,” the new ...

Broadway's revival of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, now running at the Music Box Theatre, has extended its run by a month, and will now continue through ...

The first revival of Ossie Davis' satire on the Jim Crow south, Purlie Victorious: A Romp Through the Non-Confederate Cotton Patch, is opening on Broadway after a 62-year absence. But the play is ...

Magnificent, if there is any justice in the world. Director Kenny Leon’s supremely well-toned revival of Ossie Davis’ “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch ...

By Jesse Green Two years before he made his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. attended the 100th performance of “Purlie Victorious” at the ...

Ossie Davis’ 1961 play “Purlie Victorious,” revived on Broadway starring Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young, is an indictment of white supremacy that uses humor to puncture prejudice. Senior ...

It’s been three months since Leslie Odom Jr. last preached and schemed in “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch,” a project he’d been plotting since the 2016 ...

By Salamishah Tillet 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 ...

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Oh, to be able to go back to the opening night in 1961 at the Cort Theatre of Ossie Davis’ “Purlie Victorious,” starring the playwright and his wife, Ruby Dee. The play ran a very ...