Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (AudraEqualityMc) is back on Broadway in the new play 'Ohio State Murders.' MauriceDuBoisTV reports.
It's the first show staged at the newly named James Earl Jones Theatre, and that's not the only way this production is making history.Audra McDonald stars as Suzanne Alexander, a celebrated author who returns to the Ohio State University campus to speak about the violent imagery in her writing.
"You're also starting to understand the world in which it happened ... and the way that that sort of insidious, systemic racism can, you know, be death by 1000 cuts," McDonald said. "To have been writing and coming up with these incredibly prolific, poetic, difficult, beautiful plays since the '60s and not have ever had one commercially produced on Broadway just seemed a crime," McDonald said."It explores human behavior, it explores our connectedness to each other, and it asked the questions, why do we do the things we do?" Leon said.
This is the first time Leon and McDonald have worked together on Broadway since the 2004 revival of"A Raisin in the Sun."
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