Lemon Andersen’s County of Kings to Perform at El Museo Del Barrio

Lemon Andersen’s solo show County of Kings will play a special holiday performance at El Museo Del Barrio on Sunday, December 11 at 6pm.’

Developed and directed by Elise Thoron, the show previously played an Off-Broadway engagement in 2009. It gives a tough, yet poignant biographical account of a good kid growing up in an unforgiving environment. Lemon, whose parents met at a methadone clinic and passed away from AIDS, served two prison sentences before he was 21 and won a Tony before he turned 30. His on-stage memoir touches on young love, the birth of hip-hop, slinging crack, ballet, stealing car parts, prison, and poetry as
he takes the audience on an astonishing and surprising one-man journey toward self-discovery.

Andersen has been featured as a regular on HBO’s Def Poetry presented by Russell Simmons and was also an original cast member and writer of Russell Simmons’ Tony Award winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. On screen, Lemon has appeared opposite Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s Inside Man and The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.

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