Colman Domingo Brings 'A BOY AND HIS SOUL' to Joe's Pub 2/23

Fresh from the Tony Award winning Musical "Passing Strange" where Colman Domingo received outstanding notices for his unique roles from a closeted pot smoking choir director to a German performance artist, the OBIE Award winning actor brings his critically acclaimed autobiographical solo tour-de-force "A Boy and His Soul" that whips through coming of age in 1970's West Philadelphia by way of an outstanding soul music record collection to Joe's Pub on February 23rd at 9:30pm.

He has performed Off Broadway in Bright Ideas (Manhattan Class Company), Henry V with Liev Shrieber, Passing Strange (NYSF/Public Theater), American Maul (Culture Project/Reverie), Wet (Summer Play Festival) and the new work, And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi (Sundance Lab/Public Theater).

He has starred in the world premiere of Athol Fugard's "Coming Home" at Long Wharf and performed extensively at Berkeley Rep The Guthrie, A.C.T, Huntington, California Shakespeare Theater, San Jose Rep, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Perseverance, Indiana Rep, Geva, and The Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Conference. His first solo play "A Boy and His Soul" premiered at San Francisco's Thick Description Theater and made it onto many of the years end best performance lists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Films include the upcoming Passing Strange film directed by Spike Lee, Miracle at St. Anna (dir. Spike Lee), True Crime (dir. Clint Eastwood), Freedlomland (dir. Joe Roth), star of the first ever adaptation of a Ralph Ellison story ‘King of the Bingo Game"(PBS American Storytellers), and Around the Fire with Tara Reid and Eric Mabius among many others.

Television appearances include recurring on many Law and Order and Nash Bridges episodes. He is currently a series regular on the Logo/MTV series "The Big Gay Sketch Show" produced by Rosie O'Donnell. Along with his Obie Award he and his cast of Passing Strange shared, he has received a Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award BackStageWest/Dramalogue, and five Dean Goodman Choice Awards for his work.

Tickets are available at the Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM), or at the Joe's Pub Box Office from (6 PM to 10 PM) both located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC. All seats are $20.

For table reservations please call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.

 

 

 

 

Photo Credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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