The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that two-time Tony Award winner and icon of stage and screen James Earl Jones will be this year's recipient of the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Jones made his Broadway debut in 1958’s Sunrise At Campobello and would win two Tony Awards, for The Great White Hope (1969) and Fences (1987). A larger-than-life figure in theater, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PM on April 27, 2017