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NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Between Riverside and Crazy.”
The Oscar-,
Emmy-, and Grammy Award-winner will join actors Stephen McKinley Henderson,
Elizabeth Canavan, Liza Colón-Zayas, Victor Almanzar, Michael Rispoli and Rosal
Colón — who all premiered the work off-Broadway in 2015.
The play
centers on a cantankerous ex-cop who owns a piece of real estate on New York
City’s Upper West Side and makes it a refuge for the hard-luck orphans who have
become his surrogate family. Common will play the ex-cop’s newly paroled son,
Junior.
“Between
Riverside and Crazy” will begin previews Nov. 30 and will officially open on
Dec. 19 at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.
Common
starred in the Oscar-nominated film, “Selma,” and co-wrote with John Legend the
song, “Glory,” for which he won the 2015 Oscar and 2016 Grammy Award for best
original song. He recently wrapped production on Stefon Bristol’s “Breathe”
opposite Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich, and Quvenzhané Wallis, as well as
Apple TV+’s upcoming sci-fi drama series, “Wool.”