About This Show

This marks the New Jersey premiere of award-winning British playwright, Lolita Chakrabarti’s true-life story of Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor and the first black man to appear as Othello on the London stage.

Show Details

Running Time: 2hr 0min (1 intermission)
Dates: First Preview: September 7, 2016 Opening Night: September 10, 2016 Final Performance: September 25, 2016
Location: The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, New Jersey

36 Madison Ave,

Madison,

07940

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Ticket Office: 973-845-674

Cast

Lindsay Smiling Ira Aldridge
Victoria Mack Ellen Tree
David Foubert Pierre Laporte
Sofia Jean Gomez Halina Wozniak/Margaret Aldridge
Shannon Harris Connie
John Little Terence/Bernard Warde
David Andrew Macdonald Charles Kean
Savannah DesOrmeaux Betty Lowell
Garrett Lawson Casimir/Henry Forester