The 7:30 PM performance stars Broadway favorite and Equity councillor André De Shields, a Tony nominee for his work in The Full Monty and Play On!
Alfred Preisser, artistic director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, directs the evening.
"In my performance," De Shields said in a statement, "I explore the life and achievements of the Great Emancipator, Frederick Douglass. Though Douglass began his life as a slave, through heroic efforts, he became one of America's most important and historically influential African American leaders."
De Shields also notes that January and February boast "a constellation of precedent setting historic events: Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday (Jan. 19); the inauguration of our first African-American President, Barack Obama (Jan. 20); the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12); and the anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth."
photo by Lia Chang |
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