Signature Theatre continues its 2019-2020 Off-Broadway season with Katori Hall's world premiere comedy The Hot Wing King, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III.
Performances are staged at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre within the Pershing Square Signature Center.
(Photos by Monique Carboni)
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13 images Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual Hot Wang Festival in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan in a bid to reclaim the crispy crown. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly, a first place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing.
Signature Theatre has announced casting for the upcoming world premiere comedy The Hot Wing King, written by Katori Hall and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. The cast includes Nicco Annan (as Big Charles), Sheldon Best (as Isom), Cecil Blutcher (as Everett “EJ”), Korey Jackson (as Dwayne), Toussaint Jeanlouis (as Cordell), and Eric B. Robinson Jr. (as TJ).
The Hot Wing King, a tasty new work by Katori Hall at the Signature Theatre, comes in three flavors. As directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, it is a classic buddy comedy with friends and lovers involved in bouts of physical tomfoolery and good-natured ribbing. It is also a honey-glazed drama seasoned with uncertainty and dipped in guilt. And it is a hot take on sons and fathers, biological and... Read more
