Glover, Turman, Whitfield, et al. To Read People of Clarendon County

Mary Alice, Danny Glover, Roscoe Orman, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Barbara Ann Teer, Glynn Turman, and Lynn Whitfield will star in a staged reading of Ossie Davis’ The People of Clarendon County, February 8-10 at the Schomburg Library (515 Lenox Avenue). The reading, which is part of the National Black Touring Circuit’s “Black History Month Play Festival,” will be hosted by Academy Award winner Ruby Dee, and will benefit the Ossie Davis Endowment.

The play, first presented in 1954, focuses on a little remembered incident in Clarendon County, South Carolina, when the Board of Education operated on a separate but equal law that its people protested all the way to the Supreme Court.

The festival continues with A Rose Among Thorns: Rosa Parks written by and starring Ella Joyce, February 15-17 at The Harlem School of the Arts; Matt Robinson’s Confessions of Stepin Fetchit, February 22-23 at the National Black Theatre, and Philip Hayes Dean’s Paul Robeson, starring Kevin Maynor, February 29-March 2.

For more information call 212-353-1176 or visit www.NewFederalTheatre.org.