STAGE TUBE: Audiences React to A.R.T.'s 'FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS'

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Paulus, presents Suzan-Lori Parks' epic Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), directed by Jo Bonney, in a co-production with The Public Theater in New York. Performances run now through March 1 at the Loeb Drama Center. Click below to see what audiences think of the show!

Pulitzer Prize winner and The Public Theater's Master Writer Chair Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) is a devastatingly beautiful new play set over the course of the Civil War.

Jo Bonney directs this moving and haunting drama comprised of three plays presented in a single performance. In Part 1, "A Measure of Man," Hero, a slave who is accustomed to his master's lies, must now decide whether to join him on the Confederate battlefield in exchange for a promise of freedom. Part 2, "The Battle in the Wilderness" follows Hero and the Colonel as they lead a captured Union solider toward the Confederate lines as the cannons approach. Finally, in Part 3, "The Union of My Confederate Parts," the loved ones Hero left behind question whether to escape or wait for his return - only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A masterful new work from one of our most lyrical and powerful writers, Father Comes Home From the Wars is a deeply personal epic about love and hope in a world of impossible choices.

The cast includes Benton Greene as Hero, Jenny Jules as Penny, Sekou Laidlow as Homer, Harold Surratt as The Oldest Old Man, Ken Marks as the Colonel, Michael Crane as Smith, Jacob Ming-Trent as Odyssey Dog, and Charlie Hudson III, Julian Rozell, Jr., and Tonye Patano as the Runaway Slaves. Music is arranged and performed by Steven Bargonetti. Set design is by Neil Patel, costume design by ESosa, lighting design by Lap Chi Chu, sound design and music supervision by Dan Moses Schreier, songs and additional music by Suzan-Lori Parks.

Ticket prices from $25.00. Box Office: 617.547.8300 or visit americanrepertorytheater.org.

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