![]() ![]() ![]() It’s directed by Kenny Leon, who is also directing an upcoming production of Adrienne Kennedy’s “Ohio State Murders” this fall. ![]() The story of the tight, rivalrous bond between two brothers, “Topdog/Underdog” is back on Broadway this season in a new production starring Corey Hawkins (“In the Heights”) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“Watchmen”). … Suddenly it could be heard in a different way.” After all that time I had spent making those spells and charms in the Off Off Broadway theater, I was now ready to sing the song in a way that was even more powerful. I love ‘Doctor Strange.’ The first ‘Doctor Strange’ movie, when he’s making those portals! ‘Topdog’ opened a whole portal for me and I stepped through it and then I was on a totally different landscape. “Each of my plays has a different superpower, and so ‘Topdog/Underdog’ was like - suddenly an arch appeared,” Parks said on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast. Why Mary Rodgers Pushed to Make Her Memoir Meaner, Funnier and More Revealing About Her Life Among Broadway Greats How Patina Miller Made 'Into the Woods' Her Own Why 'Cost of Living' Is on the Broadway Forefront Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: How is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play like a Marvel superhero? Ask Suzan-Lori Parks, the acclaimed writer whose 2001 outing “ Topdog/Underdog” was her first show to arrive on Broadway after she’d spent years turning heads downtown with smaller-scale work. ![]()
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