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Who Played Captain Richard Davenport in A Soldier's Play

Captain Richard Davenport is a role in A Soldier's Play, a play that opened Broadway in 2020.

In 1944, a black Sergeant is murdered on a Louisiana Army base, and one tenacious investigator must race against his white leadership to unravel the crime before they unravel him. A hair-raising drama that painfully still reverberates today, the mystery of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece has finally arrived on Broadway for the first time, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon.

5 actors have played Captain Richard Davenport in A Soldier's Play.

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Performer Production Opened
Charles Brown Off-Broadway A Soldier's Play 1981
Taye Diggs Off-Broadway A Soldier's Play 2005
Blair Underwood Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Franklin Bongjio Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Norm Lewis US Tour A Soldier's Play 2022

Other Roles in A Soldier's Play

Role Production Opened
Captain Charles Taylor Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Captain Richard Davenport Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Captain Wilcox Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Corporal Bernard Cobb Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Corporal Ellis Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Lieutenant Byrd Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Private C.J. Memphis Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Private First Class Melvin Peterson Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Private James Wilkie Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Private Louis Henson Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Private Tony Smalls Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020
Sergeant Vernon C. Waters Broadway A Soldier's Play 2020

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