Hamilton's Daniel J. Watts & More Set for Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World

Hamilton’s Daniel J. Watts and more have been tapped for Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World off-Broadway. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, tickets are now on sale to the previously announced production, which will play a limited engagement October 25 through December 4. Opening night is set for November 13 at Signature Theatre’s The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center.

Along with Watts as Black Man with Watermelon, the company will include William DeMeritt (The Normal Heart) as Voice on Thuh Tee V, Nike Kadri (Iphigenia in Aulis) as Yes and Greens Black-Eyed Peas Cornbread, Patrena Murray (Father Comes Home from the Wars) as Ham, Reynaldo Piniella (The Erlkings) as And Bigger and Bigger and Bigger, Julian Rozzell (Father Comes Home from the Wars) as Old Man River Jordan, Roslyn Ruff (The Piano Lesson) as Black Woman with Fried Drumstick, Mirirai Sithole (Mother Courage and Her Children) as Prunes and Prisms, David Ryan Smith (The Comedy of Errors) as Before Columbus, Jamar Williams (Invisible Thread) as Lots of Grease and Lots of Pork and Amelia Workman (The Layover) as Queen-Then-Pharaoh Hatshepsut.

A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again. Careening through memory and language, Parks explores and explodes archetypes of Black America with piercing insight and raucous comedy.

The production will feature sets by Riccardo Hernandez, costumes by Montana Blanco, lighting by Yi Zhao, sound by Palmer Hefferan, projection by Hannah Wasileski and movement by Raja Feather Kelly.