“The Most Intimate Creative Experience That I’ve Had”: Common Comes to Broadway

Common is no stranger to centerstage. The musician, actor, and activist has spent more than three decades in the spotlight, rising from Chicago’s underground hip-hop scene to become one of the most celebrated and versatile artists of his generation. With an Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar under his belt, Common—born Lonnie Rashid Lynn and still Rashid to his friends—is circling the last letter of the highly coveted EGOT, making his Broadway debut as Junior in Between Riverside and Crazy, available to watch via simulcast from January 31 to February 12. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2015 play opened last fall at… Read Full Article