Theater - Black Actors- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Come Back, Littler Sheba - The Country Girl

New York Times: "THEATER people have been talking for decades about James Earl Jones playing Big Daddy. The established white Southern setting of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” notwithstanding, Mr. Jones, the barrel-chested actor with the inimitable basso profundo, strikes many as a natural fit for the foul-tempered, vulgar landowner. There was serious discussion about building a production of the play around him back in 1987, and when the producer Stephen Byrd approached him about the part in the mid-’90s, Mr. Jones told him, “I always wanted to play that cracker.”"