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Nothing against her boozy Zoom performances, of course, but we’ve been waiting for this: Audra McDonald is finally returning to Broadway this fall. The six-time Tony Award winner will star as the lead in 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy’s first Broadway production, Ohio State Murders. The Kenny Leon-directed play follows Suzanne Alexander, a Black writer who returns to her alma mater to speak about the violence in her works. From there, according to the show description, “a dark mystery unravels” and helps provide a “pertinent look at the destructiveness of racism in our society.”
Ohio State Murders will be the first performance in the James Earl Jones Theatre…
