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Kerry Washington Leads Whoopi Goldberg Revival at Lincoln Center

7/20/2026

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Kerry Washington stars in a revival of Whoopi Goldberg’s 1984 show at Lincoln Center.
Washington first saw Goldberg at age eight in the Bronx watching 1985 HBO special “Whoopi Goldberg: Direct From Broadway.”
Whitney White revived it as “The Whoopi Monologues,” using scripts from the 2005 HBO special “Whoopi: Back to Broadway — the 20th Anniversary.”
The cast includes Kara Young, Dominique Fishback, Kecia Lewis and Danielle Pinnock with Washington.

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Kerry Washington stars in a revival of Whoopi Goldberg’s 1984 show at Lincoln Center.
Washington first saw Goldberg at age eight in the Bronx watching 1985 HBO special “Whoopi Goldberg: Direct From Broadway.”
Whitney White revived it as “The Whoopi Monologues,” using scripts from the 2005 HBO special “Whoopi: Back to Broadway — the 20th Anniversary.”
The cast includes Kara Young, Dominique Fishback, Kecia Lewis and Danielle Pinnock with Washington.