Actress, director and educator Phylicia Rashad, 73, won a Tony Award for her play in the Skeleton Crew. The play was also nominated for the best new work.
“You never come to this place alone. You’ve heard others say it tonight, and that’s true. It’s the job of many people,” Rashad said. .. “It’s great to express humanity abundantly and feel it accepted,” she added.
At the show, Rashad portrays Fay, a factory worker who has been in the same factory for 29 years and is facing a significant rise in pensions 30 years later. Jesse Green, the New York Times’ leading theater critic, calls it “a wonderfully filthy performance” and wears flannel shirts, big jeans, work boots, and “sour satisfaction.” In the scene with her co-star Brandon J. Dirden, two veteran actors “become free to use all the tools they’ve used on stage for years,” the audience said. You can’t look away from the many things you have, “he added. I’m doing it all at once. “
In 2004, Rashad played the role of Lena Younger in the resurrection of “Raisins of the Sun” and became the first Tony Award-winning black actress. (She later replayed her role in the 2008 television adaptation, which she won the NAACP Image Award.) Last year she He was appointed Dean of the College of Art at Howard University.