PlayOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Apr 13, 1992
Closing Date
Aug 30, 1992
1st Preview
Apr 07, 1992
1st Preview
Apr 07, 1992
Previews
7
Performances
160
PlayOriginalBroadway
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
Walter Kerr Theatre
(Apr 13, 1992 - Aug 30, 1992)
Setting
Memphis Lee's restaurant in theHill District of Pittsburgh, 1969.
Roscoe Lee Browne
Holloway
Anthony Chisholm
Wolf
Larry Fishburne
Broadway debut
Sterling
Cynthia Martells
Risa
Chuck Patterson
West
Sullivan Walker
Hambone
Al White
Memphis
Understudies: Robinson Frank Adu (Memphis, Hambone), Ed Cambridge (Holloway, West), Sarah Davis (Risa) and Ken LaRon (Sterling, Wolf)

Tony Award®

 

Best Play

1992 Nominee
Produced by Yale Repertory Theatre (Stan Wojewodski, Jr., Artistic Director) , Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre (Gordon Davidson, Artistic/Producing Director) and Jujamcyn Theaters (James H. Binger: Chairman; Rocco Landesman: President; Paul Libin: Producing Director; Jack Viertel: Creative Director) ; Produced in association with Huntington Theatre Company (Peter Altman, Producing Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director) , Seattle Repertory Theatre and Old Globe Theatre (Jack O'Brien, Artistic Director; Thomas Hall, Managing Director)
Written by August Wilson
Executive Producer: Benjamin Mordecai

Best Featured Actor in a Play

1992 Winner
Larry Fishburne
 

Best Featured Actor in a Play

1992 Nominee
Roscoe Lee Browne
 

Best Featured Actress in a Play

1992 Nominee
Cynthia Martells

Pulitzer Prize

 

for Drama

1992 Nominee
Written by August Wilson

Drama Desk Award

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

1992 Winner
Larry Fishburne

Theatre World

Award

1992 Recipient
Larry Fishburne and Al White
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