Anika Noni Rose News

'“The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II” airs Mother's Day, SUNDAY, MAY 10 (7:00-8:00 p.m. EDT). Get a sneak peek here at the all-star voice cast of The Lion King, Donald Glover, Seth Rogan, and Billy Eichner performing 'Hakuna Matata'!

a?oethe Disney Family Singalong: Volume Ii' has added even more celebrity guests to its star-studded lineup. Airing on Mother's Day, SUNDAY, MAY 10 (7:00-8:00 p.m. EDT), the nationwide singalong event hosted by Ryan Seacrest features celebrities and their families as they sing beloved Disney melodies from home.

ABC has announced the first round of celebrity guests joining 'The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II.' The second edition of the hit singalong event includes a duet between Idina Menzel and Ben Platt and performances from Broadway stars Anika Noni Rose, Josh Gad, and Disney on Broadway stars Merle Dandridge, Heather Headley, Adam Jacobs, Caissie Levy, Kara Lindsay, Kevin Massey and Josh Strickland.

New York City Center is presenting the #EncoresArchives series! They will be posting daily highlights from their musical theater vault from Encores!, Encores! Off-Center, and Gala productions.

New York City Center is presenting the #EncoresArchives series! They will be posting daily highlights from their musical theater vault from Encores!, Encores! Off-Center, and Gala productions.

Nina West, best known for her fan favorite run on Season 11 of VH1's Rupaul's Drag Race where she was voted Miss Congeniality, has relaunched her podcast Dragcast with Nina West with a new celebrity interview focused format.

Anika Noni Rose will be reading bedtime stories to your little ones via Instagram with Bedtime Stories for the Littles! Bedtime Stories for the Littles will be taking place on her on her IGTV every Sunday at 7:30PM ET.

12-time Emmy Award® winner and Tony Award® recipient Rosie O'Donnell and actor/Producer Erich Bergen have announced that the star-studded one-night-only return of the 25-time Emmy Award-winning 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show,' raised over $600,000 in support of The Actors Fund in order to help in this time of crisis.

Starz, a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), announced today that Hailey Kilgore has joined the cast of 'Power Book III: Raising Kanan,' playing Jukebox - a character fans of the franchise will recall - in a series regular role. The character of Jukebox first appeared in the original 'Power' series portrayed by Tony(R) Award-winner Anika Noni-Rose.

Kids of all ages will see democracy in action during the Walnut Street Theatre for Kids (WST for Kids) musical production of GRACE FOR PRESIDENT. From February 1 - 9, see the popular children's book about a school's mock election come to life on the historic Walnut stage!

TADA! Youth Theater will celebrate its 35th Anniversary Gala. This year's honorees are Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt, and the TADA! Gala will be hosted by Tituss Burgess. 

Deadline has reported that Anika Noni Rose will be starring in the recently greenlit horror Limbo from Miramax, Barnyard Projects and Snoot Entertainment, with production scheduled to begin in January.

Anika Noni Rose is set to star in the horror film LIMBO from Miramax, Barnyard Projects and Snoot Entertainment, according to Deadline. 

Amazon has announced that Anika Noni Rose, Brooke Smith, P.J. Byrne, Malcolm Mays, Jeremiah Birkett and Sophie Guest will recur opposite Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas in their new anthology series Them, according to Deadline.

Earlier this month, BroadwayWorld was saddened to report that singer and actress Diahann Carroll had died. Today, we're remembering her by taking a look back in our photo archives.

The only African American lead producers on Broadway for the last 13 years they and their company Front Row Productions have blazed a trail of a?oefirsts,a?? Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey have brought a unique brand of diversity to Broadway and London's West End by mounting new productions featuring non-traditional casting and diverse voices to the stage. Established in 2006, the Olivier Award Winning and Tony-nominated Producers strive to employ diverse talent, creative teams and management for all of their productions.

Classic Stage Company's 2019 gala will honor Anika Noni Rose, whose singular performance in CSC's recent production of Carmen Jones propelled it to widespread acclaim, and Ted Chapin, visionary President of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization.

According to Variety, stage and screen star Anika Noni Rose will guest star in two episodes of Hulu's upcoming adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere. She will play Paula Hawthorne, a  'renowned photographer and art professor in New York who becomes a mentor to Mia when she is young.'

Once again, SYFY and SYFY WIRE will take over New York Comic Con -- providing both Con-goers and fans at home wall-to-wall coverage and activations from the pop culture mega-event, held October 3-6 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. SYFY WIRE's partnership with NYCC producer ReedPOP continues, with SYFY WIRE once again serving as the official streaming partner for the 2019 Con, delivering exclusive original coverage and content both online and on air…and it's all LIVE! Additionally, SYFY will feature panels and screenings for fan faves and upcoming originals alike. 

As the ten year anniversary of the hit animated film, The Princess and the Frog approaches, Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose is reflecting on her role as the first black Disney princess.