Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Extends Off-Broadway

Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) will extend off-Broadway through November 30; it had originally been set to shutter on November 16. Directed by Jo Bonney, the show officially opened on October 28 at the Public's Anspacher Theater.

Father Comes Home From the Wars consists of three plays performed as one. In Part 1, “A Measure of Man,” Hero, a slave who is accustomed to his master’s lies, must now decide whether to join him on the Confederate battlefield in exchange for a promise of freedom. Part 2, "The Battle in the Wilderness" follows Hero and the Colonel as they lead a captured Union solider toward the Confederate lines as the cannons approach. Finally, in Part 3, “The Union of My Confederate Parts," the loved ones Hero left behind question whether to escape or wait for his return—only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost.

The cast includes Sterling K. Brown, Louis Cancelmi, Peter Jay Fernandez, Jeremie Harris, Russell G. Jones, Jenny Jules, Ken Marks, Jacob Ming-Trent, Tonye Patano and Julian Rozzell Jr.