By Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Black No More, a new musical by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter and American Crime creator John Ridley and The Roots’ Tarik Trotter (aka Black Thought), will launch The New Group’s 2020-2021 theater season at Off Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center.
Directed by Scott Elliott, with choreography by Bill T. Jones, the world premiere production of Black No More will begin performances in October on the Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage.
The musical is based on George S. Schuyler’s 1931 novel by the same name, and will feature a cast that includes Jennifer Damiano (Next to Normal), Brandon Victor Dixon (Hamilton), Tamika Lawrence (Rent), Theo Stockman (American Idiot) and Trotter.
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