Roundabout Theatre Company celebrates the official opening of A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, January 21. Directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon at the American Airline Theatres, the production marks the first time the play is being seen on Broadway.
A hair-raising mystery set in 1944, A Soldier's Play follows an officer's race against his white leadership to unravel the crime of a black sergeant's murder.
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Starring Tony nominee David Alan Grier and Broadway alum Blair Underwood, the cast also features Nnamdi Asomugha, Jerry O'Connell, McKinley Belcher III, Rob Demery, Jared Grimes, Billy Eugene Jones, Nate Mann, Warner Miller, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Lee Aaron Rosen.
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Broadway News (Charles Isherwood)
The Hollywood Reporter (David Rooney)
New York Magazine / Vulture (Helen Shaw)
NY Stage Review (Jesse Oxfeld)
NY Stage Review (David Finkle)
New York Theatre Guide (Joe Dziemianowicz)
The New York Times (Jesse Green)
Theater News Online (David Cote)
Theater News Online (Jeremy Gerard)
Time Out New York (Adam Feldman)
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A Soldier’s Play features set design by Derek McLane, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by Allen Lee Hughes, and sound design by Dan Moses Schreier. Performances began December 27, 2019.
