The actor's response to this honor is just as touching.
The Shubert Organization announced that the 110-year-old Broadway Cort Theatre is being renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre in honor of the Hollywood legend. The theater has been under renovations since the COVID-19 pandemic began and is expected to have not only a new name upon reopening but a new wing as well. Renovations are expected to be completed this summer.
The Shubert Organization is so incredibly honored to put James—an icon in the theatre community, the Black community, and the American community—forever in Broadway’s lights. That James deserves to have his name immortalized on Broadway is without question. COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY The beloved actor's career spans seven decades. If you don’t know the Mississippi-born Michigan-raised performer’s name, then you most certainly know his voice as the towering Sith Lord, Darth Vader, in the classic Star Wars film franchise, or Mufasa from The Lion King fame. He’s played many notable characters over the years on stage, including the classic Shakespearean roles of Oberon from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Claudius from Hamlet.
Jones has also appeared in fourteen productions at Shubert theatres, which include two performances at Cort Theatre. His most recent performance was Weller Martin in the 2015 revival of Donald L. Coburn’s The Gin Game; the production took place at the John Golden Theatre. For me standing in this very building sixty-four years ago at the start of my Broadway career, it would have been inconceivable that my name would be on the building today.
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