Directed by Jeremy B. Cohen, the American premiere of Kwei-Armah's work will play the Pearlstone Theater Feb. 10-March 7, 2010. Brooks will be joined onstage by Donetta Lavinia Grays and Gretchen Hall.

Let There Be Love, according to press notes, "reexamines our shared immigrant experience in a fresh and provocative way—finding a common humanity beyond racial, national, or cultural identities."

In addition to his television work, Avery Brooks was seen on Broadway in Paul Robeson, as King Lear at Yale Rep, and as Othello at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, where he also played the title role in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine. An Oberlin graduate, Brooks has returned to campus several times: as the college's first Artist-in-Residence, as a teacher of the Black Arts Workshop, and in performances of Paul Robeson. In 1996, Brooks was awarded an honorary doctorate.

Kwame Kwei-Armah is also the playwright of Elmina's Kitchen, Walter's War and Seize the Day.