BROKE-OLOGY Opens Tonight At LCT, 10/5

The Lincoln Center Theater's production of BROKE-OLOGY, a new play by Nathan Louis Jackson, opens at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater tonight, 10/5. Previews began on September 10. The production is directed by Thomas Kail with a cast featuring Francois Battiste, Crystal A. Dickinson, Alano Miller and Wendell Pierce.

BROKE-OLOGY is the story of the King family who have weathered the hardships of life and survived with their love for each other intact. But when two brothers (played by Francois Battiste and Alano Miller) are called home to take care of their ailing father (played by Wendell Pierce), one of them must choose to follow the life he dreams of or honor the unspoken promise of loyalty to his family.

Nathan Louis Jackson, who is making his New York debut, is a graduate of the Juilliard School and of Kansas State University and is a past participant in The Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting intensive, the William Inge 24 Hour Play Festival, the winner of two Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Awards, the Mark Twain Playwrighting Award and the recipient of the Kennedy Center's Gold Medallion. BROKE-OLOGY premiered last summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Thomas Kail directed the hit Broadway musical In The Heights, for which he won a 2007 Joseph A. Callaway Award and was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. He is a consulting producer and a Music Director on the new PBS television show The Electric Company. He recently directed the City Center Encores! Summer Star series production of The Wiz.

BROKE-OLOGY has sets by Donyale Werle, costumes by Emily Rebholz, lighting by Jason Lyons and sound by Jill BC DuBoff.

The performance schedule for BROKE-OLOGY is Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8pm, with matinees Wednesday and Saturdays at 2pm and Sundays at 3pm (there is no Saturday matinee on Sept. 12 and no Tuesday performance on Oct. 6.). Tickets, priced at $80 & $85, are available at the Lincoln Center Theater Box Office, at Tele-charge.com (212-239-6200) or by visiting www.lct.org.

Francois Battiste Broadway: Prelude To A Kiss. Off-Broadway: The Good Negro. Regional Theater credits include productions at the Dallas Theatre Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, and The Goodman Theatre.

Crystal A. Dickinson Off-Broadway: The First Breeze of Summer (Signature Theatre), Home, Don't Tread On Me (52nd Street Project). TV/Film credits include the recurring role of Melissa in Tyler Perry's House of Payne.

Alano Miller Regional credits: In the Red and Brown Water and Marcus: O the Secret of Sweet (McCarter Theater). Film: Champagne, Alex's Last Day and New York Stories.

Wendell Pierce Broadway: Serious Money, The Boys of Winter. Off Broadway: Tartuffe, Tis Pity She's a Whore, Cymbeline, Two Gentlemen of Verona (all NYSF); Waiting for Godot, The Cherry Orchard, The Good Times are Killing Me. TV: series regular on The Wire, I'll Fly Away; and many guest star and recurring roles on such series as In Plain Sight, Law & Order, Judging Amy, Third Watch. Film: Ray, Bulworth, Sleepers, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Malcolm X, Bonfire of the Vanities.

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