Joe Morton is an Emmy® Award winner and recipient of multiple NAACP Image Awards for his role as Rowan/Eli Pope
in Shonda Rhimes’ critically acclaimed series “Scandal.” Morton was last seen as Rev. Arthur Finer in the CBS hit “God Friended Me.” Morton is widely known for his title role in John Sayle’s film, “The Brother From Another Planet” and as the ill-fated scientist Miles Dyson in “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” Among his many other film credits, Morton was last seen as Cyborg’s dad, Dr. Silas Stone, in “Batman vs. Superman” and “Justice League.” Morton debuted on Broadway in HAIR, and was a Tony nominee and Theatre World Award winner for his portrayal of Walter Lee Younger in RAISIN. Most recently, Morton received the NAACP’s Lifetime Achievement Award for theatre, and the Lucille Lortel, Off-Broadway Alliance, and AUDELCO awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a play, for his
portrayal of comedian/civil-rights activist, Dick Gregory, in TURN ME LOOSE.
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Yeah, and I got the chance to interview her.
I mean, who knew that you can do that? That was one of the most thrilling pieces of theatre I’ve seen in recent years.
It was a quite a document. That wasn’t very long before the pandemic, and I think there has been talk about bringing it back.
You know, when people ask, what would be your ideal theatre, it would be that you could see shows again that you may have missed them during their three-week run—that there could be some kind of repertory theatre that could bring these things back. The other great docudrama I saw recently was Is This a Room?, the Tina Satter play. My larger point here is, is documentary theatre a form I’m innately drawn to? No. But then you go look at these shows, and there’s no way you can say, “This is not art.”Ben Brantley: A Critic Is a Mirror, Not a Shaper
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The Times’ lead critic looks back on a fertile period in the field and reflects on the role he played in it.
