Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway in Adrienne Kennedy鈥檚 Ohio State Murders. Kenny Leon will helm the production with additional casting, a creative team, a theatre, and dates to be announced in the coming months.
This isn鈥檛 the first time McDonald and Leon have tackled Kennedy鈥檚 work. A digital reading of the play as part of Broadway鈥檚 Best Shows鈥� Spotlight on Plays series.
A member of the Theater Hall of Fame and an Obie Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Kennedy is a playwright, lecturer, and author. Her other works include Funnyhouse of a Negro, June and Jean in Concert, and Sleep Deprivation Chamber. 鈥淚 am so thrilled. It鈥檚 only taken me 65 years to make it to Broadway!鈥� said Kennedy.
Ohio State Murders follows fiction author Suzanne Alexander as she returns to Ohio State University to talk about the violence in her writing. Soon after arriving, however, a dark mystery unravels.
Serving as lead producers are Jeffrey Richards (a co-founder of Broadway鈥檚 Best Shows), Rebecca Gold, Jayne Baron Sherman, and Irene Gandy.
Leon is also attached to a number of upcoming projects, including the of Rajiv Joseph's King James and of Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death.
