Tony Award Nominee PHILLIP BOYKIN will join world renowned Pianist, Emile Pandolfi in a Benefit Concert for The Phillis Wheatley Association and it’s P. W. Dwight E. Woods Repertory Theater For Youth, of which Phillip is a very proud Alumni. This “Evening Of Elegance” will take place on January 11, 2013 starting at 6:30 PM… Read more »
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Phillip will perform New Year’s Eve at the Copacabana
“BROADWAY ROYALE” 2013 Hosted by Tony Award Winner Dale Badway who will also be performing! Other special guests performers… PHILLIP BOYKIN Tony Award Nominee for Porgy and Bess, Mary Millben and many other stars of Broadway. The Music Director is Radio City Music Hall’s Mr. Ken Lundie
Phillip Boykin is performing CROWN in Broadway’s “Porgy and Bess”
Phillip Boykin is presently performing in his Broadway Debut As Crown in the new Broadway Version of The Gershwin’s “PORGY AND BESS” at the Richard Rodgers Theatre located at 226 West 46th Street, in New York City. This show has been extended 3 times and is scheduled to run through the end of September 2012…. Read more »
Phillip Boykin, You Win the Tony of My Heart
Phillip Boykin, You Win the Tony of My Heart by LUCKY on JUNE 7, 2012 in TONY AWARDS 2012,TONY TALK When Audra McDonald won her Drama Desk Award for Porgy and Bess on June 4, she thanked her costars, and spoke of what an honor it was to fall in love with Norm Lewis eight… Read more »
THE THEATER SOURCE.COM By: Carey Purcell
Crown, played by Phillip Boykin, is a frighteningly fierce presence onstage with a rich singing voice to match.
METROWEEKLY By Doug Rule
Crown (a frighteningly great Phillip Boykin) turns into a killing, raping monster…
NEW YORK OBSERVER by Rex Reed
Phillip Boykin is a hardy, potent and terrifying Crown with a voice of booming iron and the malevolent force to enslave anyone within range. When he appears from the swamp after the picnic to rape Bess and drag her back from decency into a life of shame, the scene on Kiawah Island sizzles with the… Read more »
NJ newsroom
The burly Phillip Boykin looks dangerous as the brutish Crown and sings with muscular force
WMNR Fine Arts Radio -Joanne Moryl
Crown, scarily played by bass-baritone Phillip Boykin, who has one of the most powerful voices heard in some time,
Theater Scene.Net By Victor Gluck
Rather than playing Crown as a charming charismatic playboy, Boykin is so convincing at making Crown brutal and dangerous that it turns Bess into a trapped woman who cannot escape from her fear, attraction or need for him. Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier and Phillip Boykin to pull out all the stops is… Read more »