PURLIE VICTORIOUS
Category
Play
Country
United States
Run Dates
May 6 - Jun 21, 2026
SOON
Venue
Run Time
100 minutes
Run Dates
2026.05.06 ~ 2026.06.21
Studio Theatre
About the show
Purlie is home on a mission—to buy back his father’s church and liberate the sharecroppers he grew up with from the brutal segregationist who still runs their plantation. Purlie Victorious features a madcap plot, survival techniques forged in the Jim Crow South, and satiric targets that feel as urgent as they did when the play premiered in 1961—its 2023 Broadway revival was nominated for six Tony awards. Psalmayene 24 (The Colored Museum) will direct this timely and lacerating comedy.
Details
PLAYWRIGHT
Ossie Davis
DIRECTOR
Psalmayene 24
SET DESIGN
Alexander Woodward
COSTUME DESIGN
Cidney Forkpah
LIGHTING DESIGN
Colin K. Bills
SOUND DESIGN
Kathy Ruvuna
COMPOSER
Guy Davis
DRAMATURG
Adrien-Alice Hansel
FIGHT CHEOREOGRAPHER
Robb Hunter
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
John Keith Hall
CAST
PURLIE VICTORIOUS JUDSON
Warner Miller
LUTIEBELLE GUSSIE MAE JENKINS
Danaya Esperanza
MISSY JUDSON
Kelli Blackwell
GITLOW JUDSON
Jason Bowen
CHARLIE COTCHIPEE
John Sygar
IDELLA LANDY
Lizan Mitchell
OL' CAP'N COTCHIPEE
Stephen Patrick Martin
THE SHERIFF
Elliott Bales
THE DEPUTY
Jacob Thompson
Where it's been performed
Studio Theatre
Washington D.C.
United States
Washington D.C.
,United States