A Soldier's Play Revival Tour
Ages: 12+
A Soldier's Play - 2022 US Tour History , Info & More
Ahmanson Theatre
135 N Grand Ave Los Angeles, CA 90012
This 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning thriller has rocketed back into the spotlight, thanks to this 2020 Tony Award®-winning Best Revival from Roundabout Theatre Company. “This is a play that deserves to be staged regularly all over America—though it’s hard to imagine that it will ever be done better than this. It keeps you guessing all the way to the final curtain” (The Wall Street Journal).
In 1944, on a Louisiana Army base, two shots ring out. A Black sergeant is murdered. And a series of interrogations triggers a gripping barrage of questions about sacrifice, service, and identity in America. Broadway’s Norm Lewis leads a powerhouse cast in the show Variety calls “a knock-your-socks-off-drama," directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon.
A Soldier's Play - 2022 - US Tour Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR A Soldier's Play
Review: From Broadway to St. Paul (briefly), ‘A Soldier’s Play’ is a Tony-winning revival
8 / 10
While “Broadway” is often invoked in the promotional materials for shows putting down stakes at St. Paul’s Ordway Center and Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theatre, those productions don’t customarily come directly from New York’s Great White Way. More often, they’re built exclusively for the road. Such is not the case with Roundabout Theatre Company’s staging of Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer-winning drama, “A Soldier’s Play.” It won the 2020 Tony Award for “Best Revival of a Play”
Batter Up: A Review of “A Soldier’s Play” at Broadway in Chicago
8 / 10
When “A Soldier’s Play” was first staged in the 1980s, playwright Charles Fuller took heat for highlighting how racism-at-large infected relations among his Black characters. Some critics charged that the play perpetuated stereotypes that needed burying. Fuller argued that all communities suffer from a wide range of emotions and behaviors and that his characters also lived in a context where the dynamics of hate, self-hatred and resistance demanded exploration. Four decades later, with the help of a strong production and fantastic cast, Fuller (who died last year) seems on firmer ground than ever. This is a story about Black soldiers in a certain time and place, but the issues for Blacks and whites still manifest. The ousting of two African American legislators from the Tennessee Statehouse was unfolding the night I saw this show. Black people certainly are not the only ones who must mediate complicated power relations that can work against what others might see as common cause. Kindred stories can be told of prisoners, refugees, concentration camp populations and many others. Indeed, “A Soldier’s Play,” is adapted, in part, from Herman Melville’s unfinished classic “Billy Budd,” set in the class-riven British Navy of the eighteenth century. “A Soldier’s Play” has a depth all its own, however.
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Review: A SOLDIERS PLAY at ASU Gammage
by Nathaniel Jones - May 19, 2023
by Nathaniel Jones - May 19, 2023
The National Tour of A Soldier’s Play at ASU Gammage is magic, being led by not only the sensational Norm Lewis but also a fantastic cast, telling a story that although set in a time and place nearly 80 years ago, is also one that still mirrors realities our communities face today.
A SOLDIER'S PLAY National Tour is Coming to the Ahmanson Theatre in May
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 18, 2023
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 18, 2023
The North American tour of “A Soldier’s Play” will make its Los Angeles premiere at Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre May 23 through June 25, 2023.
Review Roundup: A SOLDIER'S PLAY Launches National Tour
by Stephi Wild - December 21, 2022
by Stephi Wild - December 21, 2022
Roundabout Theatre Company has officially launched its national touring production of the 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play. Read the reviews for A Soldier's Play here!
Video: First Look at Norm Lewis, Eugene Lee & More in A SOLDIER'S PLAY National Tour
by Show Highlights - December 16, 2022
by Show Highlights - December 16, 2022
Get a first look at footage of the premiere national touring production of Roundabout's 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play.
Photos: First Look at Norm Lewis, Eugene Lee & More in A SOLDIER'S PLAY National Tour
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 16, 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 16, 2022
Get a first look at images of the premiere national touring production of Roundabout's 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier’s Play.
A SOLDIER'S PLAY National Tour is Coming to the Forrest Theatre in January
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 28, 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 28, 2022
The Kimmel Cultural Campus, in partnership with The Shubert Organization, will present the Philadelphia premiere of Roundabout Theatre Company's 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Play, A Soldier's Play.
A Soldier's Play History
Other Productions of A Soldier's Play
| 1981 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2005 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2020 | Broadway |
Roundabout Theatre Company's Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2022 | US Tour |
North American Tour US Tour |
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