Thoughts of a Colored Man
1st Sep 2021
A New American Play for a New Broadway
As the sun rises on a single day in the pulsing heart of Brooklyn, seven Black men are about to discover the extraordinary – together. By Keenan Scott II, one of today’s boldest new voices, Thoughts of a Colored Man blends spoken word, slam poetry, rhythm, and humor into a daringly universal new play. Welcome to the vibrant inner life of being Black, proud, and thriving in the 21st century.
This richly theatrical mosaic shines brilliant light onto these men, a tight-knit brotherhood, revealing their most triumphant selves. Their vibrant and vulnerable experiences and feelings reverberate far beyond the barbershops and basketball courts of their community. They reveal the deeply human hopes, joys, sorrows, fears, and dreams of all men, all people.
JOHN GOLDEN THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY
First Preview Oct 01 2021
Opening Night Oct 31 2021
Closing Night Mar 20 2022
Cast
Dyllón Burnside
Bryan Terrell Clark
Keith David
Da’Vinchi
Broadway debut
Luke James
Broadway debut
Forrest McClendon
Tristan ‘Mack’ Wilds – Broadway debut
John Golden Theatre
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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. |
| Address |
| 252 W 45th St (between 8 Ave & 7 Ave) New York, NY 10036 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
