This Acting Company season features our 47th company of young actors recently graduated from the country's top training programs. Meet them starting July 14 as they perform a rotating repertory of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Nambi E. Kelley's Native Son, based on the novel by Richard Wright.
Andy Grotelueschen (Henry V, The Spy) received his first Tony nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a musical for Tootsie. Past collaborator Michael McElroy will receive a special Tony Honor. Numerous other members of the TAC family are also Tony-nominated, including directors Bartlett Sher and Jack O'Brien, composer Adam Guettel, and designers Fitz Patton, Howell Binkley, Jennifer Tipton, Paul Tazewell, William Ivey Long, and Clint Ramos.
Alum Patti LuPone has been honored with an Olivier Award for her performance in Company on the West End.
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The Acting Company to Present Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure in 2019
BY RYAN MCPHEE
NOV 13, 2018
The two plays will be performed in repertory at the Duke on 42nd Street in the summer.
The Acting Company will present a 21st-century drama and a Shakespearean classic—both touching upon personal and societal morality and justice—in repertory as part of its 2019 season.
Nambi E. Kelley’s stage adaptation of Native Son, based on the 1940 novel by Richard Wright, and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure will both open at the Duke on 42nd Street July 28, 2019. Performances will run July 14 through August 24.
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