#Stageworthy News of the Week: Diahann Carroll (1935-2019) Broadway Groundbreaker. DeNiro, Pacino, Cannavale in Broadway's Belasco….for Netflix.
Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, "Julia" in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. Born in the Bronx, she made her Broadway debut way back in 1954, at the age of 19, in Truman...