![]() ![]() Simmons, lighting design by Ryan O’Gara, projection design by Sven Ortel, and sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman. The creative team for Thoughts of a Colored Man includes music by Te’La and Brother Kamau, set design by Robert Brill, costume design by Toni-Leslie James and Devario D. ![]() Broadnax most recently directed Katori Hall’s The Hot Wing King at Signature Theatre. Scott’s The Migration LP is currently in development at New York Stage & Film. More than ever, it is vital for Broadway and theaters across America to make room for the next generation of theater makers: to celebrate their communities, to feel their heartache, and to hear the stories they are ready to tell." "Steve’s direction brings unbridled tenderness to the experience of the contemporary Black male with a full range of humanity. From our very first reading in 2017, his voice was raw, pure, and honest for our world today," producer Brian Moreland said in a statement. “Keenan’s play has been one of my favorite journeys. ![]() Thoughts of a Colored Man had its world premiere at Syracuse Stage in fall of 2019, and went on to play at Baltimore Center Stage later that year. This will mark the Broadway debut of both Scott and Broadnax.Ī powerful theatrical testament by Scott, Thoughts of a Color Man weaves spoken word, slam poetry, and rhythm into a mosaic of the inner lives of Black men and heralds the arrival of an essential new voice to the American theater. Broadnax III, the work will run on Broadway at a Shubert theater to be announced. Brown Memorial Hall, Norfolk State University.Keenan Scott II's new play Thoughts of a Colored Man will open on Broadway this upcoming season. When: 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday 3 p.m. The characters come from different backgrounds but when their perspectives are viewed as a whole, Stockard said, the play shows how they each face many of the same challenges and paints an insightful portrait of urban life for Black American men. While Lust, played by NSU freshman Justin Richardson, is preoccupied with the female body, his best friend, Love, played by NSU sophomore Adam Moskowitz, is more concerned with emotionally connecting with the opposite sex. Anger’s counterpart, Happiness, played by NSU alum Corey Brown, is a corporate executive living in a high-rise apartment. Until the frequency of the sirens overwhelmed him. He used to pray for the people in ambulances that zoomed past his home. In one scene, Anger, played by Jordan Hampton, a senior majoring in drama and theater at NSU, speaks about waking up to the distractions in his busy apartment building. The same year, Tim Teeman, writing for The Daily Beast, called the play “unabashedly earnest” commenting on its direct treatment of speaking to an audience “about what racism, inequality, aspiration, love, sexuality, tragedy, success, and happiness look like to a broad group of Black men in contemporary Brooklyn.” In 2021, the Washington Post theater critic, Peter Marks, wrote that while he could not “begin to know” the pressures of being an African America male in America, “I at least know more about their passion, love, anger, lust, depression, happiness and wisdom” after seeing “Thoughts of a Colored Man” on Broadway. One scene has them all meeting at a barber shop. Characters speak and exchange ideas with each other in various locations throughout the neighborhood they live in such as a line outside of a store. ![]()
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