A Soldier's Play

American Airlines Theatre

Previews Began: December 27, 2019

Opening Night: January 21, 2020

Closing Night: March 11, 2020

Playwright: Charles Fuller

Music: Jacinth Greywoode

In this drama about black/ white race relations, no easy answers about cause or blame are provided, when in 1944 in a segregated army camp in Louisiana, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out “They still hate you.” As the play examines the murder, the truth of it becomes more shocking and hateful than the murder itself.

CAST

OPENING NIGHT

David Alan Grier Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Blair Underwood Captain Richard Davenport
Nnamdi Asomugha Pvt. First Class Melvin Peterson
Jerry O’Connell Captain Charles Taylor
McKinley Belcher III Private Louis Henson
Rob Demery Corporal Bernard Cobb
Jared Grimes Private Tony Smalls
Billy Eugene Jones Private James Wilkie
Nate Mann Lieutenant Byrd
Warner Miller Corporal Ellis
J. Alphonse Nicholson Private C.J. Memphis
Lee Aaron Rosen Captain Wilcox

Understudies: Michael Andreaus (Private James Wilkie, Private C.J. Memphis), Franklin Bongjio (Captain Richard Davenport, Private Louis Henson), Matthew Goodrich (Lieutenant Byrd, Captain Wilcox), Lorenzo Jackson (Corporal Bernard Cobb, Corporal Ellis, Private Tony Smalls), Howard Overshown (Sergeant Vernon C. Waters)