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Denzel Washington To Star In Revival Of August Wilson’s “Fences”

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Get ready for another Hollywood star on Broadway!

According to the New York Times, that two-time Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington, will return to the New York theatre stage next spring in a revival of August Wilson’s Fences.

Producers Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott Rudin say the play will open in April. The production will be directed by Kenny Leon, who directed Wilson’s Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean on Broadway. No other casting was announced.

Set in the 1950s, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience, and examines race relations, among other themes. It follows the struggles of a former Negro League baseball player who now finds himself working as a garbage collector.

The play earned Wilson the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Actor for James Earl Jones.

Washington was last on Broadway in 2005 in a revival of Julius Caesar in which he played Brutus.

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