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Hace 10 horas · Kenny Leon directs a vibrant revival of Samm-Art Williams’s play about a man who leaves his North Carolina home for New York and then comes back to the rural town years later.
Hace 10 horas · His most famous play and the one Mr. Leon has chosen to revive, “Home,” arrived on Broadway in 1980 after an acclaimed staging by the Negro Ensemble Company; it has not been back since. Its return is nothing short of a cause for celebration. The play and Mr. Leon’s production are modest in scale: a one-act piece running 90 minutes, it ...
Hace 1 día · In 2021 during the pandemic shutdown, director Kenny Leon helmed a streaming production of Home as part of the Roundabout Theatre Company's Refocus Project, which aims to expand the American theatre canon by spotlighting underappreciated classics by artists of color.
Hace 9 horas · The nostalgic style, unfashionable for decades, may be why “Home” has not until now been revived on Broadway, despite its successful and much-praised premiere.Kenny Leon’s production for the ...
Hace 1 día · With the acclaimed director Kenny Leon at the helm and a three-actor cast that all but channels the author’s voice and the groundbreaking intensity and rhythms of his ’70s-era work for the ...
Hace 1 día · NEW YORK — “The playwright Samm-Art Williams passed away recently,” the sonorous sound designer Justin Ellington says in a recorded announcement before director Kenny Leon’s new production ...
Hace 1 día · Todd Haimes Theatre (Broadway). By Samm-Art Williams. Directed by Kenny Leon. With Tory Kittles, Brittany Inge, Stori Ayers. Running time: 1hr 30mins. No intermission. Follow Adam Feldman on X ...