Joe's Pub recently welcomed Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins in her return to their stage for an ongoing series BRING ON THE MEN. Best known for her celebrated roles in Caroline, or Change and Jelly's Last Jam, Tonya made her Broadway debut in the original cast of Merrily We Roll Along. Broadway audiences have also delighted in her performances in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Play On!, The Wild Party and Radio Golf, while television audiences know her from As The World Turns, All My Children, Army Wives and 24.
Check out highlights from her concert below!
In the past twelve months alone, Tonya Pinkins has given five critically acclaimed performances in roles as diverse as an aging Countess, a syphilitic Bawd, a bitter ghetto mom, a diabetic great grandmother and a faithful Latina from the Bronx. A visual artist with Huntington's disease and Lena in A Raisin In The Sun. Her performance in MILK LIKE SUGAR won the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award. Tonya appears opposite Woody Allen in the upcoming film FADING GIGOLO by John Turturro and in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival selection NEWLYWEEDS by Shaka King and in HOME by Jono Oliver
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