Thoughts of a Colored Man
- Dates
- Oct 13 – Dec 22, 2021
- Performances
- 77
About
Thoughts of a Colored Man is a play written by Keenan Scott II that opened on Broadway on October 13, 2021. It is Scott's Broadway debut, and the play is the first Broadway show that was written and directed by Black men (Steve Broadnax III) with a Black man in the lead role and lead produced by all Black artists. It was slated to be one of seven plays by Black playwrights during the Fall 2021 season. The show uses slam poetry, prose and songs to tell the story of Black life in America through the stories of seven multi generational men living in the same Brooklyn neighborhood. The show ran at the Golden Theatre until December 22, 2021, when it was forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even though the playwright stepped in to cover one performance. It was originally slated to end M...