Lance Coadie Williams

Theatre News: New York City Center Announces Complete Casting for Encores! “La Cage aux Folles”

Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins joins the cast of La Cage Aux Folles (running June 17 – 28, 2026) as Jacqueline, along with Peter Francis James as Edouard, and Rachel Webb as Anne. They join previously announced Emmy Award winner Wayne Brady (Georges), Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner Billy Porter (Albin), Encores! alum Alaman Diadhiou (Jean-Michel), James Jackson Jr. (Jacob),…

Broadway Review: “Sweat” Evaporates Quickly at Studio 54

March 27, 2017 | Broadway > | Alison Wright, Carlo Alban, James Colby, Johanna Day, John Earl Jelks, Kate Whoriskey, Khris Davis, Lance Coadie Williams, Lynn Nottage, Michelle Wilson, Public Theater, Reading PA, Strikes, Studio 54, Sweat, Unions, Will Pullen

“Sweat,” currently running on Broadway at Studio 54, seems to be a play about not what it is assumed to be about. It is not about post-election politics. It is not about the history of factory closings in America’s rust belt or the pandemic of brokenness in American cities. “Sweat” is about human brokenness, the kind of brokenness that results…