But when they start to hustle each other, can both survive? The searing family drama about grappling with racism, poverty, and more has only gotten better with age since it first opened over 20 years ago. Two brothers, forced back together by circumstance, must steal and con to get by. Get tickets to the first Broadway revival of Topdog/Underdog on TodayTix now. It got heavy.Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer-winning play returns to Broadway this fall, with Tony nominee Corey Hawkins and Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen. “Every day we came in we would talk about our environments, just encouraging actors to not be so focused on the work in front of you but also be focused on the life you have to live in order to bring yourself to the work. “Kenny encouraged us to be students of the world, to look outside of ourselves,” Hawkins said. There was also the work that the director Kenny Leon pushed him and Abdul-Mateen II to do in order to keep their performances alive and fresh. On the new episode of Stagecraft, Hawkins singled out all the elements that made “Topdog” so hard for him, including learning to play the guitar and teaching himself how to shuffle cards like an expert. It’s up to us to take that risk, and we have to be fearless.”īy the time Hawkins’ Tony nomination was announced, he’d already decamped to Atlanta to film the upcoming Netflix movie adaptation of “The Piano Lesson.” (That’s just one of his upcoming screen projects, alongside “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” this summer and “ The Color Purple” due for release this Christmas.) But, he said, “I look back on ‘Topdog/Underdog’ fondly because I never had a role that challenged me quite as much as Lincoln.”
“And then I realized: Wait, those roles are absolute there. “I got to see ‘ Jerusalem‘ in London, and I remember looking at Mark Rylance and then asking myself and asking friends: Why don’t we have that? Why can’t we get up there and have the opportunity to use all of ourselves and play and take risks? Where are those roles for Black people?” he said.
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