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Negro Ensemble Company Founder Douglas Turner Ward Passes Away at 90 Ward was nominated for a Tony Award in 1974 for his performance in The River Niger.by BWW News Desk Ward is perhaps best known as the founder and artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company. He made one of his first performances in The Iceman Cometh by Eugene ONeill in 1956, at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Three years later, he made his Broadway debut in a small role in A Raisin in the Sun, alongside Sidney Poitier a...

Always And Only When the role is right for Angela Bassett, only she will do. That’s why the team behind Fox’s 9-1-1 built the show around her — producers and directors crave the strength and self-respect she always brings to the screen. As a young actress, she says, she’d do without rather than take a job “that would degrade Black women or the Black female experience.” Margy Rochlin For her HBO series, A Black Lady Sketch Show, Thede envisioned a support group for imposingly glamm...