Audra McDonald Returns to Broadway in Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders

Broadway Black — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:08:23 +0000

There’s a new Broadway premiere coming to town! Emmy, Grammy, and Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway starring in Ohio State Murders by Adrienne Kennedy, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon (Fences, A Soldier’s Play).

A member of the Theater Hall of Fame, Adrienne Kennedy will make her Broadway debut with this production at age 90. A well-known prize-winning playwright as well as lecturer and author who has been contributing to American theater for over six decades, Kennedy is best known for her plays such as Funnyhouse of a Negro, June and Jean in Concert, Sleep Deprivation Chamber, and numerous other plays and books.

“I am so thrilled. It’s only taken me 65 years to make it to Broadway!”
Adrienne Kennedy

Ohio State Murders is an unusual look at the destructiveness of racism in the United States. When SuzanneAlexander (McDonald), a fictional Black writer, returns to Ohio State University to talk about the violence in her writing, a dark mystery unravels.

Dates, casting and the creative team will be announced in the coming months.

The producing team for Ohio State Murders is led by Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Gold, Jayne Baron Sherman and
Irene Gandy.

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Audra McDonald Returns to Broadway in Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders