For more than 30 years, Cedric the Entertainer been conquering the entertainment world as a stand-up comic, an actor in films like Barbershop, a game show host on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and, for the past eight years, the star of the hit sitcom The Neighborhood.
Now, he’s a lead in his second Broadway play: a revival of August Wilson’s award-winning 1984 play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, about the residents of a Pittsburgh boarding house in the 1910s, in which he plays the house’s owner, Seth Holly.
TheaterMania recently spoke to Cedric about the play, how much of Seth he sees in himself, what it’s like working with co-stars Taraji P. Henson and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and whether he wants to continue working onstage or return to television...READ MORE