{"id":107930,"date":"2011-06-22T13:27:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T08:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=107930"},"modified":"2011-06-22T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T08:27:59","slug":"angela-bassett-lands-broadway-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/22\/angela-bassett-lands-broadway-role.html","title":{"rendered":"Angela Bassett Lands Broadway Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcom X actress Angela Bassett has signed up to star opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway production of the play The Mountaintop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-13872073\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">BBC reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old has replaced Halle Berry, who pulled out of the role because of child custody issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, won the Olivier award for best new play in London last year.<\/p>\n<p>Performances are scheduled to start in September at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountaintop depicts civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the night before his 1968 assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Bassett will play the mysterious woman who visits him the night before.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced in April that Jackson would make his Broadway debut in the role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These two remarkable actors have excited audiences around the world for many years, and bringing them together in this extraordinary new play on Broadway promises to be a major highlight of the season,&#8221; producers Jean Doumanian and Sonia Friedman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bassett&#8217;s other film credits include the Tina Turner biopic What&#8217;s Love Got to Do With It? and Boyz n the Hood.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcom X actress Angela Bassett has signed up to star opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway production of&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28651,28652,28653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}