Nova Y. Payton will play Effie White, the most turbulent of the Dreamgirls in the Signature Theatre's holiday-season revival of the 1981 musical, in Arlington, VA. Associate artistic director Matthew Gardiner will direct and choreograph the Motown fable by lyricist-librettist Tom Eyen and composer Henry Krieger.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM on October 26, 2012