Overview
- The production, which announced the change Tuesday, will now end its limited run on July 19 after adding a week.
- Previews start March 30 at the Barrymore Theatre, with opening night set for April 25.
- Debbie Allen directs a cast led by Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer, both making their Broadway debuts, alongside Joshua Boone and Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
- Tickets are on sale as the revival returns to the same Broadway house that premiered the play in 1988.
- Set in 1911 and the second work in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, the play centers on Herald Loomis’s search for his wife after years of illegal bondage under Joe Turner.