Topdog/Underdog takes place in the here and now, as two brothers contemplate their fate in their cramped, tiny apartment in a rooming house. In honor of its twentieth anniversary, Parks’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Topdog/Underdog is being revived on Broadway at the Golden, just in time to preserve us. Later, she adds, “Yeah, maybe when I started I had this belief that theater would save us. “Theater will save the universe!” the writer, portrayed by Suzan-Lori Parks, declares in Parks’s theatrical concert Plays for the Plague Year, a sensational three-hour show that recently concluded a Covid-shortened run at Joe’s Pub. Tuesday – Sunday through January 15, $84-$248
Casting is by Calleri Jensen Davis, and Kamra Jacobs serves as production stage manager.Siblings Lincoln (Corey Hawkins) and Booth (Abdul-Mateen II) face hard times in Topdog/Underdog (photo by Marc J. Leon's creative team includes scenic designer Arnulfo Maldonado, costume designer Dede Ayite, lighting designer Allen Lee Hughes, and sound designer Justin Ellington.
The Broadway cast also brought the work to London's Royal Court Theatre in 2003. The production received two 2002 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making Parks the first Black woman to win the honor. It transferred to Broadway the following year with Wright reprising his Off-Broadway performance opposite rap artist Mos Def. Wolfe and starring Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright. The work made its world premiere Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2001 with a production directed by George C. Haunted by the past and their obsession with three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history. Topdog/ Underdog follows brothers Lincoln (Hawkins) and Booth (Abdul-Mateen II), named by their father as a joke. The current revival, directed by Kenny Leon and performing at the John Golden Theatre since September 27, marks the play's 20th anniversary.
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