Charles Fuller鈥檚 A Soldier鈥檚 Play, starring (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), Blair Underwood (), Jerry O'Connell (Living on Love, Jerry Maguire), and Nnamdi Asomugha (Good Grief at Vineyard Theatre), will begin performances on Broadway December 27. The production, directed by Tony Award winner , is set to officially open at the American Airlines Theatre January 21, 2020.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning crime drama tells the story of a tenacious investigator who must race against his white leadership to unravel who murdered a black sergeant on a Louisiana Army base.
The cast also includes Billy Eugene Jones (The Mountaintop) as Private James Wilkie, Jared Grimes () as Private Tony Smalls, and Lee Aaron Rosen () as Captain Wilcox.
Making their Broadway debuts are former NFL All-Pro defensive back Nnamdi Asomugha, Rob Demery (Good Faith at Yale Repertory Theatre), Nate Mann (Atlantic Theater Company鈥檚 Little Women), Warner Miller (Signature Theatre鈥檚 By the Way, Meet Vera Stark), J. Alphonse Nicholson (Second Stage鈥檚 Days of Rage), and McKinley Belcher III (MCC鈥檚 The Light).
will features set design by , costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by Allen Lee Hughes, and sound design by .
