BREAKING NEWS: Casting has been announced for the highly anticipated Broadway debut of Lynn Nottage’s new play CLYDE’S coming this Fall. Leading the company as a group of workers in a truck-stop sandwich shop will consist of…..
Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba (TV’s Orange Is the New Black along with Broadway’s Coram Boy and the recent revival of Godspell),
Emmy Award winner Ron Cephas Jones (TV’s This Is Us along with Broadway’s Gem of the Ocean, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, and last seen in the revent revival of Of Mice and Men),
Lucille Lortel Award nominee Kara Young (Off Broadway’s All The Natalie Portmans) in her On Broadway debut,
and
Reza Salazar (no stranger working with Lynn Notage in the Broadway debut of SWEAT and appeared in the original 2019 premiere of this play).
The play will be a 5 person cast. The last remaining cast member will be announced soon.
For those who may not know, CLYDE’S tells the story of a incarcerated kitchen staff of a truck-stop sandwich shop. One day, they are offered a chance at reclaiming their lives. Along the way, the staff is given permission and the chance to dream of that possibility of the perfect delicious sandwich.
The play originally had its world premiere debut in 2019 as FLOYD’S at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN.
Under the direction of Kate Whoriskey, CLYDE’S will have a delicious Broadway debut at the Hayes at Second Stage Theater. Previews begin November 3rd, 2021 and the Opening Night is set for November 22nd, 2021. It will run for a strictly limited engagement through January 16th, 2022.
Who is excited?!!!
