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A Soldier’s Play
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe continues its 2023-2024 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “A Soldier’s Play,” which was written by Charles Fuller. WBTT and Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) resident director Chuck Smith returns to Sarasota to direct. The production runs January 18-February 18, 2024. The play is set on a U.S. Army base in Louisiana in the segregation-era South of 1944. Two shots ring out and a Black sergeant is murdered. A series of interrogations triggers a gripping barrage of questions about sacrifice, service and identity in America. One persistent investigator must race against his white leadership to unravel the crime before they unravel him. Originally staged off-Broadway in 1981, the cast included Samuel L. Jackson and Denzel Washington, among others. Washington went on to star in the 1984 film adaptation, “A Soldier’s Story,” directed by Norman Jewison. “A Soldier’s Play” was revived and produced a second time off-Broadway in 2005 before being produced on Broadway in 2020. Over the years, the play has featured an illustrious roster of Black actors including Taye Diggs, Blair Underwood, David Alan Grier and Kenny Leon. It has won many awards since being written and produced, including a Pulitzer Prize, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, multiple Tony Awards, Drama Desk Awards, and Drama League Awards. Performances take place in WBTT’s Donelly Theatre (1012 N. Orange Ave., Sarasota). Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, and 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are $50/adults, $20/students and active military (prices include all applicable ticket fees). For more information or to purchase tickets, visit westcoastblacktheatre.org or call the Box Office at 941-366-1505.
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