So we went to look at other theaters to see what was available…and we had to adjust to a different theater that was huge. But I am so excited about now being in that Barrymore because it’s the theater of my heart.” They said, well, you gotta wait to see if you can get the Barrymore. I’m a novice – first time directing on Broadway – and I thought you just chose the theater you want and you got it, and so I was like, I want the Barrymore. “When I came on board and all of this first came together,” she said, “my dream was The Barrymore. In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Richardson Jackson said she welcomes the venue-shift, noting that the Barrymore – which is where she gave her Tony-nominated performance as Lena Younger in the 2014 revival of A Raison in the Sun – had been her first choice for Piano Lesson.

19.'Prima Facie' Starring Jodie Comer Extends Broadway Run The show, which also stars Danielle Brooks, begins previews on Sept. 'I'm extremely excited to walk that stage and present this play the best, the best way I can.' John David Washington, making his Broadway debut as Boy Willie, is dealing with many different feelings, he said. 'Drowning myself in a drug-fueled kind of craziness and ended up in rehab, which, you know, started a whole 'nother journey for me.' 'By the time the play traveled and came back to Broadway and I was an understudy, I was pretty much devastated that I wasn't going to make my Broadway debut,' the actor said. Samuel Jackson, playing Doaker Charles, returns to the work after playing the character's nephew Boy Willie in its first production at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1987. And I'm like, oh, no, I'm telling a ghost story,' she said. 'I think that the men have shied away or they wanted to make this such a metaphor. LaTanya Richardson Jackson, in her Broadway directing debut, has a more literal take on the story than her predecessors.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning work, set in 1936, tells the story of a brother and sister battling over what to do with an heirloom piano that has images of their family carved by an enslaved ancestor. NEW YORK, Sept 15 (Reuters) - American playwright August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson' is returning to Broadway, with Samuel L.

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