Brooklyn-set play ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ gets Broadway run
Playwright Keenan Scott II’s play “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” a work about the outer and inner lives of Black men, is heading to the bright lights of Broadway.
The play will be given a Shubert theater and will open whenever Broadway restarts. It will be directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. Both playwright and director are Black and will be making their Broadway debuts.
“Thoughts of a Colored Man” is made up of related vignettes and set over the course of a single day in Brooklyn, where seven Black men discuss gentrification, violence, racial and sexual identity and what it means to be part of a community.
“I think people can expect to be moved and to laugh. There’s so much laughter in this show, but there’s also so much revealed about the Black male experience in America,” producer Brian Moreland told The Associated Press. “They will laugh, they will cry, and they’ll be able to ask questions that they’ve never been able to ask before.”