Theatrical Outfit Continues 40th Anniversary Season with the One Man Tour de Force, THURGOOD

"This election year, as we exercise our civic responsibility to choose our future leadership, what better instruction and inspiration do we have than this, to attend to the true story of an American who made our nation, and our world, a more hopeful place to be?" - Tom Key, Artistic Director, Theatrical Outfit

Theatrical Outfit continues its 40th Anniversary Season of Hope with the one man tour de force Thurgood, running September 29 - October 16, 2016 at the Balzer Theater at Herren's. The Outfit run of Thurgood, in which judicial politics meet personal triumph, is the Atlanta premiere of the play starring prolific local stage and screen actor Geoffrey Williams as the first African American Supreme Court Justice. The original Broadway production featured Laurence Fishburne and was subsequently filmed as an HBO original movie.

"If the curriculum in the schools were presented with half as much personality, the gaps in our knowledge wouldn't be so pronounced." - The L.A. Times

ABOUT THE PLAY
Thurgood
By George Stevens, Jr.
September 29 - October 16, 2016

Based on the life and career of the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, this riveting narrative charts Thurgood Marshall's evolution from back-alley Baltimore, to Howard University law school, to his fight for equality in the South, all the way to a seat on the highest court in the land in 1967. In addition to his victorious challenge of segregation in Brown vs. Board of Education, humorous and inspiring milestones of Marshall's journey reveal the remarkable brilliance, perseverance and hope of one of the greatest American heroes of all time.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: George Stevens, Jr. is an American writer, author, playwright, director and producer. He is the founder of the American Film Institute, creator of the AFI Life Achievement Award and instigator/producer of the Kennedy Center Honors. Since 2009 he has served as Co-Chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Accolades to date for his professional career include seventeen Emmys, eight Writers Guild awards, two Peabody Awards, the Humanitas Prize and an Honorary Academy Award.

ABOUT OUR STARRING ACTOR: Geoffrey Williams (Thurgood in Thurgood) has appeared on many Atlanta stages: Theatrical Outfit, ALLIANCE THEATRE, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company, Horizon Theatre Company and Theatre in the Square, to name a few. Regional theatre credits include Huntington Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Indiana Rep Theatre, Burt Reynolds Theatre, Jomandi Productions, Mill Mountain Playhouse, among others, and several national touring companies. You might have seen Geoffrey in The Piano Lesson, King Hedley, II, Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, Homebody/Kabul, Blues for an Alabama Sky, orAin't Misbehavin'. He has also acted in more than a dozen film or teleVision Productions for Showtime, Millennium Filmworks, and HBO. Geoffrey trained at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas; the BFA Theatre Program at the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre and Film Training in Florida; and in the Professional Intern Program at Northside School for Performing Arts (Atlanta)!

PERFORMANCE DATES & TICKETS*
Previews: September 29 - 30, 2016 at 7:30PM
Opening Night: October 1, 2016 at 7:30PM
Regular Performances: October 2 - 16, 2016

Performances of Thurgood are Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30PM and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30PM. Tickets range from $20-$50 and may be purchased online at theatricaloutfit.org or by calling678.528.1500. Group pricing is available. For info, email boxoffice@theatricaloutfit.org.

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