Television
Vanessa Bell Calloway has discovered daytime soap opera fans never forget a face.
Oct. 24, 1992
Entertainment & Arts
Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of ‘Purlie Victorious,’ Ossie Davis’ 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.
Oct. 6, 2023
Some of them you know. Some you don’t.
Jan. 1, 1995
Isaac Hayes, Erykah Badu and Vanessa Bell Calloway will host a music-filled fund-raiser Sunday for the Jenesse Center, a women’s and children’s domestic violence shelter in South-Central Los Angeles.
Dec. 4, 1999
Vanessa Bell-Calloway and Glynn Turman, known for their work in stage, film and TV, will perform a staged reading of Gus Edwards’ romantic play “Louie and Ophelia,” at the Lucy Florence Coffee House in Hollywood on March 14, 21 and 28 at 3 p.m.
March 4, 1999
Phylicia Rashad, who plays Mom Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” will be directed by her sister, Debbie Allen, in “Polly,” a two-hour musical special for NBC.
June 18, 1989
Whitefire Theatre’s Solofest 2014 gets underway, a struggling composer encounters “The Ghost of Gershwin” at Lonny Chapman Theatre, and Vanessa Bell Calloway delivers “Letters from Zola” at Pasadena Playhouse.
May 1, 2014
Tonight will usher in yet another new mid-size professional theater space--and this one is south of the Santa Monica Freeway, in a region that has been relatively untouched by the recent expansion of the mid-size scene elsewhere in Los Angeles County.
April 30, 2000
Vanessa Bell Calloway delivers “Letters from Zola” at Pasadena Playhouse.
May 8, 2014
“I thought I could step right into a ready-made family,” sighs Louie, a 48-year-old cook contemplating his turbulent romance with Ophelia, an outspoken divorced mother of two.
May 4, 2000