Topdog/Underdog
Topdog/Underdog is a play by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered in 2001 off-Broadway in New York City. The next year it opened on Broadway, at the Ambassador Theatre, where it played for several months. In 2002, Parks received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Outer Critics Circle Award for the play; it received other awards for the director and cast.
The play chronicles the adult lives of two African American brothers as they cope with poverty, racism, work, women, and their troubled upbringings. Lincoln lives with Booth, his younger brother, after being thrown out by his wife. Booth reminds Lincoln that his presence was meant to be a temporary arrangement. But Lincoln, who works at an arcade as a whiteface Abraham Lincoln impersonator, is their sole source of income.
Topdog/Underdog
JOHN GOLDEN THEATRE BROADWAY
1ST PREVIEW NIGHT SEP 27, 2022
OPENING NIGHT OCT 20, 2022
CLOSING NIGHT – TBA
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CAST
Creative
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Kenny Leon
Scenic Design by Arnulfo Maldonado
Costume Design by Dede Ayite
Lighting Design by Allen Lee Hughes
Sound Design by Justin Ellington
Production Stage Manager: Kamra A. Jacobs
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| The John Golden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as the Theatre Masque on February 24, 1927 with the play Puppets of Passion. Seventy-six years later it housed another production known for its puppets, the award-winning Avenue Q. In 1937, impresario John Golden acquired the theatre and renamed it for himself. It also operated as a movie house in the late 1940s and ’50s before it was purchased by the Shubert Organization, who returned it to full-time theatrical use. The exterior of the theatre was used as the location of the movie version of the film A Chorus Line. It is also shown in the background during the opening scenes of All About Eve as the home of Margot Channing’s Aged In Wood. |
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| 252 W 45th St (between 8 Ave & 7 Ave) New York, NY 10036 |
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| Transport |
| Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority; N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Square |
| Phone |
| (212) 239-6200 |
| Box Office |
| Monday – Saturday 10am – 8.00pm – Sun – Noon – 7pm |
| Access Information |
| Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible.There are no steps into theatre from the sidewalk. Please be advised that where there are steps either into or within the theatre, we are unable to provide assistance. |
| Orchestra: Seating is accessible to all parts of the orchestra without steps. Wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only. |
| Not wheelchair accessible. Restrooms located down 2 flights of steps (down 19 steps to lower level.) Wheelchair accessible restrooms located in the Schoenfeld Theatre. |
Topdog/Underdog, Cory Hawkins, Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kenny Leon, Arnulfo Maldonado, Dede Ayite, Allen Lee Hughes, Justin Ellington, Kamra A. Jacobs
