ATTENTIONGETTING THRILLER

THE 1982 PULITZER Prize-winning A Soldier’s Play has been back in the spotlight, thanks to a run that earned the Roundabout Theatre Company a Tony Award in 2020 for best revival. The Charles Fuller thriller is on a national tour that stops at the Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre May 23 through June 25. “This is a play that deserves to be staged regularly all over America—though it’s hard to imagine that it will ever be done better than this,” wrote The Wall Street Journal of the production. “It keeps you guessing all the way to the final curtain.”

Variety calls the show “a knock-your-socks-offdrama.” Two shots ring out on a Louisiana Army base in 1944; a Black sergeant is murdered, and the interrogations that follow trigger a barrage of questions about sacrifice, service and identity in America.

Broadway’s Norm Lewis leads a powerhouse cast; Tony Award winner Kenny Leon directs. 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.628.2772, centertheatregroup.org