A Free Man of Color Arrives on Broadway

John Guare's A Free Man of Color begins performances at Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre, directed by George C. Wolfe. 

Described as a freewheeling epic, A Free Man of Color is set in 1801 New Orleans. Title character Jacques Cornet is a new-world Don Juan and the wealthiest inhabitant of this sexually charged and racially progressive city. Jacques thinks all is well in his paradise until history intervenes, setting off a chain of events that no one, much less this free man of color, realizes is about to splinter the world.