Comedy Show Will Benefit Negro Ensemble's A SOLDIER'S PLAY
By: Stephi Wild Feb. 06, 2018
On February 27 at Paris Blues, 2021 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (at 121st St.), The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. will hold a comedy benefit to support its production of "A Soldier's Play," to be presented February 14 to March 4 at Gene Franbkel Theatre, 24 Bond Street.
The benefit will feature cast members of the play who are also comedians. Hosted by Horace Glasper (BET, Li'l JJ's Almost Famous). With Gil T (HBO Def Comedy, Showtime, BET), Derek Dean & Special Guest. There will be a 50/50 raffle where the winner gets half the pot. The play uses a murder mystery in a segregated U.S. Army base during World War II to expose angers and resentments among African Americans that curiously mimic white racist attitudes. The original production ran for two years at Theatre Four, earned unanimous praise and launched the careers of many current stars including Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Adolph Caesar and James Pickens, Jr. It won the Pulitzer Prize, an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play and three Obie Awards before being brought to the big screen as "A Soldier's Story." This fall's production was deemed "gripping and powerfully performed" (TheaterScene.net), "masterful and stimulating play...the actors are incredible" (Times Square Chronicle) and "we need 'A Soldier's Play' [today] more than ever." (NY Theatre Wire).Videos