![]() And Corey Hawkins, a Tony nominee for Six Degrees of Separation, gives a star turn that’s persuasively measured and lived-in as big brother Lincoln.īeyond their ripely symbolic, larger-than-life names, these young Black men share traumatic histories (“raggedy recollections,” as one puts it), uncertain futures, and inevitable fates. He nails the recklessness - and in the end, raw sorrow - of the brash younger brother. Director Kenny Leon has cast a pair of aces who consistently match each other across the tragicomic tone shifts.īroadway rookie Yahya Abdul-Mateen II went nude in his Emmy-winning Watchmen role, but he’s never been more emotionally naked than in his performance as Booth. ![]() Someone’s always got more of it, and that disparity breeds trouble.įor this harrowing and humorous two-hander to reach its full firepower, it takes actors equal in might. At its core – and right there in the title – the play also concerns power. ![]() The always intriguing playwright reckons with race, identity, fractured families, and the elusive chase for grace. Back on Broadway in a top-notch new production, Suzan-Lori Parks’s 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner, Topdog/Underdog, bubbles over with timeless talking points. ![]()
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