UMS Premieres SOME OLD BLACK MAN Starring Wendell Pierce
The production will be available on demand exclusively at UMS Jan. 15-18.by BWW News Desk
Acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce is pushing forward a new way of imagining live theater in a lingering pandemic, which has shuttered in-person arts experiences throughout the country.
His first experiment, Some Old Black Man, premieres at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, and is his first live theater performance since his acclaimed run last year as Willy Loman on London s West End. The new, fully-staged production of James Anthony Tyler s 2015 play was filmed at the Jam Handy in Detroit after a three-week quarantine by its entire creative team under strict public health and safety protocols.