Critic’s Pick Review: ‘Purlie Victorious’ Throws a Comic Funeral for Racism Ossie Davis’s 1961 play is no period piece, as a blazing and hilarious revival starring Leslie Odom Jr. testifies.

LEON I don’t want people to shortchange Ossie Davis’s craftsmanship and his writing an outrageous comedy that embraced different styles, like vaudeville, broad comedy, and a little bit of the ...

In 1961, actor and Civil Rights activist Ossie Davis wrote the blistering play Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch. Now, Leslie Odom Jr. stars in the revival.

Davis plays resident old-timer (and sage), Da Mayor, who has lived on the block long enough to know that cooler heads always prevail (even though it’s kind of hard to keep a cool head when ...

You know we love a Black love story, and what better one than that of late actors and activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee? The couple met in 1946 when they were both cast in the Broadway play Jeb ...

Ossie Davis is an Actor with 12 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1963 Vignette. The year with the most videos was 2004 with five videos.

OSSIE DAVIS, who died last week in Miami Beach, at 87, was an actor, playwright, film director and civil rights spokesman who invested each role with passion and purity.