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Broadway Vet and Acclaimed Actress Novella Nelson Dies at 77

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BroadwayWorld has learned that acclaimed actress and Broadway vet Novella Nelson died on Friday, September 1st at the age of 77.

Starting in 1961, Nelson had a decades-long stage career, performing, directing and producing, primarily in New York. She was a featured performer on Broadway in 1970 in the musical, Purlie. In 1975, Nelson directed the play La Femme Noire at The Public Theater. Her film career began at age 39 with a small part in 1977’s An Unmarried Woman, and continued for the next several decades with roles in movies and television. She was last seen on the stage in 2014 in Horton Foote’s The Old Friends opposite Betty Buckley, HAllie Foote, Annalee Jefferies and Veanne Cox.

Her Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Having Our Say; The Little Foxes; Caesar and Cleopatra; Purlie; Hello, Dolly; Division Street; A Piece of My Heart; Simon McBurney’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Passing Games and In White America, among others.

Regional credits include Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ALLIANCE THEATRE, Hartford Stage and American Conservatory Theater. She has appeared in such productions as The People’s Temple at The Guthrie Theater, The Big White Fog at London’s Almeida Theatre, Oedipus at American Repertory Theater and in a highly acclaimed London production of A Raisin in the Sun which played both the Lyric Hammersmith and The Young Vic theatres.

Film/TV credits include RIPD, Lars Von Trier’s Dear Wendy, Denzel Washington’s Antwone Fisher, Chris Rocks’ Head of State, Spike Lee’s Clockers, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club, Peter Weir’s Green Card, Taylor Hackford’s The Devil’s Advocate, Jonathan Glazer’s Birth, Emily Hubley’s The Toe Tactic, The Starter Wife, One Life to Live, Sex and the City, and Oz, among others.

She has directed projects at Lincoln Center Theater, Hartford Stage, Manhattan Class Company, The Public Theater, and the Negro Ensemble Company.

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Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays Presents “Ace of Space” On Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 7 PM PT on Twitch

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Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Ace of Space” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show.

Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more.

Rocky’s first studio album, “Firestorm” is now available worldwide through Allied Artists Music Group, together with an epic music video of his #1 Global DRT Chart topper single, “Rock Star”, that also picked up a Best Rock Performance nod at the 2019 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (“HMMA”).

Rocky Kramer recently returned to the studio to record his sophomore album “Alone In The Rain” which will be released later this year. 

Rocky Kramer was recently cast in The Mutt Productions/ Allied Artists rock n’ roll time travel comedy adventure “Rockin’ In Time” where he will play the film’s lead character, Lars Olsen. The film is being directed by Aaron Lee Lopez (of the “Teenage Girl” franchise) and is being produced by multi-platinum and six-time Grammy Award winning musician turned motion picture producer, Kurt Wipfli. 

Watch Rocky Kramer’s “Rock Star” Music Video here: 

Watch Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays “Ace of Space” on April 22nd, 2025, at 7 PM PT on Twitch here: 


http://www.twitch.tv/rockykramer

The official website for Rocky Kramer may be found at http://www.RockyKramer.com

Visit Rock & Roll Tuesdays with Rocky Kramer on IMDB here:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13299266/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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