PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philly native Da’Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress at all the major film awards last season for her role in “The Holdovers.” Now, she’s returning to her hometown for a benefit performance just in time for the holiday and couldn’t be more excited.
“You know, I think as your career continues to grow and it takes you to all these beautiful places … there is nothing like coming home and to work at home — the place that was the birthplace of my imagination and my curiosity and me … bumbling around the streets of Philadelphia and figuring out what I wanted to do, what I wanted to be, how I wanted to create, and this beautiful city was there to support me,” Randolph said.
Randolph will take the stage at Suzanne Roberts Theatre on South Broad Street on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 7 p.m., to perform in a reading of Terrence McNally’s “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.”
She will star alongside stage and screen actor Robert D. DoQui, who says “Frankie and Johnny” is a “quintessential love story.”
“We delve into two characters who are … unbeknownst to them, searching for one another,” DoQui said. “All that they've been looking for has been right in front of their face the whole time.”
He says the story is about taking chances — “taking chances on love, taking chances on yourself, putting yourself out there and being vulnerable, and being unafraid to be vulnerable.”
The show will be directed by Temple University alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames, who wrote the first play Randolph performed in while studying at Temple.
The performance will benefit Philadelphia Theater Company’s education and community engagement programs. For tickets and more information, visit philadelphiatheatercompany.org.