BroadwayWorld is reporting that Tony Award winner Kenny Leon is set to direct a new production of A Soldiers Play on Broadway featuring veteran actors David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood.
The show will take place at the Roundabout Theatre Company and will begin preview performances on December 27 with an official open on January 21, 2020 at the American Airlines Theatre.
“I think America needs to hear the newness and the freshness of this play.” ~ Kenny Leon
A Soldier’s Play is set in 1944 and follows the investigation into the murder of a black Sergeant on a Louisiana Army base. One tenacious investigator must race against his white leadership to unravel the crime before they unravel him.
The original production at the Negro Ensemble Company premiered Off-Broadway in 1981 and featured a cast of then rising superstars—Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson along with the late Adolph Caesar and Larry B. Riley. It was later turned into a film in 1984 and renamed A Soldier’s Story. It featured much of the stage cast along with the late Howard E. Rollins, Robert Townsend, Art Evans, Patti LaBelle and David Alan Grier.
Watch the film’s original trailer below:
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PHOTO CREDITS: Roundabout Theatre Company + RayCornelius.com
