Just a few days after Black History Month ends, the Broadway smash "Wicked" will make some Black history of its own.

Kebede takes up the Wicked role after Erivo starred as the green witch in the film version. Erivo commented on the lack of ...

Gilet will play DI Mervin Wilson and becomes the first Black actor to play the lead role ... island of Saint Marie and focuses on the British detective inspector and his team of local police ...

And he says his best work – be it as Detective Bunk Moreland on "The ... when Pierce became the first Black actor to play Willy Loman on Broadway, in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." ...