Laurence Fishburne to Bring Thurgood to Kennedy Center, Geffen Playhouse

Laurence Fishburne will reprise his performance as Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall in George Stevens, Jr.’s Thurgood, to run June 1-20 in the Eisenhower Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Leonard Foglia will direct the production.

Following its engagement at the Kennedy Center, the production will play the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, July 7-August 8.

Thurgood, seen on Broadway in 2008, is a biographical portrait of Marshall, who rose from a childhood in the backstreets of Baltimore to the Supreme Court of the United States. For his work in the play on Broadway, Fishburne received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance, as well as a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.

The actor won Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle, and Theater World awards for his role in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, and also appeared on Broadway in the Roundabout’s revival of The Lion in Winter. Additional stage credits include L.A. productions of Fences (for which he won an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award) and Without Walls (for which he received an NAACP Theater Award). He received an Academy Award nomination for What’s Love Got to Do With It, and additional film work includes The Matrix and Apocalypse Now. Fishburne currently stars in the CBS series CSI.

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