{"id":2427,"date":"2014-02-18T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T23:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2014-02-18T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T23:57:41","slug":"with-his-kids-grown-up-denzel-washington-plans-to-take-more-broadway-roles-after-upcoming-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/18\/with-his-kids-grown-up-denzel-washington-plans-to-take-more-broadway-roles-after-upcoming-run\/","title":{"rendered":"With his kids grown up, Denzel Washington plans to take more Broadway roles after upcoming run"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2428\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/220px-Denzel_Washington_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2428\" alt=\"Denzel Washington (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/220px-Denzel_Washington_cropped-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/220px-Denzel_Washington_cropped-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/220px-Denzel_Washington_cropped.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denzel Washington (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Now that his children are grown, you can expect to see a lot more of Denzel Washington on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>The Tony- and Oscar-winning actor, who is set to portray Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry&#8217;s classic play &#8220;A Raisin in the Sun,&#8221; is lately finding more time for theatre work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up until nine years ago, I hadn&#8217;t been here in 15 years, from 1990 until 2005. Basically, that was because of raising my kids, my wife and I,&#8221; Washington said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;It&#8217;s impossible to commute from California to New York, or New York to California doing an eight-show week schedule. So once they got old enough, I could start coming back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Washington last appeared on Broadway in the 2010 revival of August Wilson&#8217;s &#8220;Fences,&#8221; where he picked up a best actor Tony.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming back to Broadway in 2005 to play Brutus in &#8220;Julius Caesar,&#8221; Washington hadn&#8217;t appeared on a Broadway stage since 1988.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been back three times in nine years. And I&#8217;ll be back again, hopefully,&#8221; Washington said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NEW YORK &#8211; Now that his children are grown, you can expect to see a lot more of Denzel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[361,360,352,362],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hollywood","tag-denzel","tag-theater","tag-us","tag-washington","mauthors-john-carucci","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}