Common to Make Broadway Debut in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play – Billboard

Widespread will step onto a Broadway stage for the primary time this winter in Second Stage Theater’s Between Riverside and Loopy.

The rapper and actor — who’s a Tony Award wanting turning into an EGOT winner — was introduced on Friday as a part of the forged of the upcoming Broadway manufacturing from author Stephen Adly Guirgis and director Austin Pendleton. The present will start previews on Nov. 30 earlier than opening on Dec. 19 at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.

Widespread will star at midnight comedy because the just lately paroled Junior, son of ex-cop and up to date widower Walter “Pops” Washington (performed by Stephen McKinley Henderson). The play follows the duo as they struggle to carry on to one of many final rent-stabilized flats on Riverside Drive amid the rehashing of outdated wounds and within the face of sketchy new houseguests and a last ultimatum.

Widespread will be a part of a number of beforehand introduced Off-Broadway forged members returning to their roles together with Henderson, Victor Almanzar, Elizabeth Canavan, Rosal Colón, Liza Colón-Zayas and Michael Rispoli.

The Broadway manufacturing’s artistic workforce contains Walt Spangler, who’s heading up scenic design, and Alexis Forte, who will lead costume design, with lighting design by Keith Parham and each sound design and unique music by Ryan Rumery. Casting is by Telsey + Firm.

After a restricted run opening Off-Broadway at The Atlantic Theater Firm’s Linda Gross Theater in July 2014, Second Stage produced a restricted off-Broadway run of Between Riverside and Loopy from February to March 2015 on the Tony Kiser Theatre.

Between Riverside and Loopy gained the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for drama, the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for greatest play and the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for excellent play, amongst a variety of different honors.

This story was initially revealed by The Hollywood Reporter.