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Ruben Santiago-Hudson Joins August Wilson's 20th Century

By: Brian Scott Lipton · Sep 26, 2007  · DC Metro

Ruben Santiago-Hudson<br>
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson will act in and direct part of August Wilson's 20th Century, a series of readings of all 10 plays of Wilson's Pittsburgh Hill cycle, to be held March 4-April 6 at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater.

The event will be organized by Kenny Leon, who will also direct alongside Santiago-Hudson, Lou Bellamy, Gordon Davidson, Israel Hicks, Todd Kreidler, and Derrick Sanders. The creative team for the series will include set designer David Gallo, costume designer Reggie Ray, and lighting designer Allen Lee Hughes.

The series will utilize a cast of approximately 25 actors, including Wilson veterans Anthony Chisholm, Lynda Gravatt, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Eugene Lee, and Phylicia Rashad.

Santiago-Hudson won the Tony Award for his performance as Canewell in Wilson's Seven Guitars and directed the Signature Theatre Company's 2006 revival of the play. He co-starred in the Broadway production of Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. He also authored and starred in the Off-Broadway solo show Lackawanna Blues, which was later turned into an HBO film.

For more information, visit www.kennedy-center.org.




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