Cicely Tyson, nine-time Broadway veteran, a Tony winner at age 88 for The Rip to Bountiful, was best known as "an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women…brought some of the first ennobling portrayals of African Americans to a vast television audience," from "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" to portrayals of Coretta Scott...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM on January 28, 2021