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PURLIE VICTORIOUS

PURLIE VICTORIOUS

Category

Play

Country

United States

Run Dates

May 6 - Jun 21, 2026

SOON

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.

PURLIE VICTORIOUS Info

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

Studio Theatre

Washington D.C.

United States

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