Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World Extends Off-Broadway

Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World has extended by a week off-Broadway; the production will now play through December 18. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, the show began previews on October 25 and will officially open on November 13 at Signature Theatre’s The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center.

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 cast includes William DeMeritt as Voice on Thuh Tee V, Nike Kadri as Yes and Greens Black-Eyed Peas Cornbread, Patrena Murray as Ham, Reynaldo Piniella as And Bigger and Bigger and Bigger, Julian Rozzell as Old Man River Jordan, Roslyn Ruff as Black Woman with Fried Drumstick, Mirirai Sithole as Prunes and Prisms, David Ryan Smith as Before Columbus, Daniel J. Watts as Black Man with Watermelon, Jamar Williams as Lots of Grease and Lots of Pork and Amelia Workman as Queen-Then-Pharaoh Hatshepsut.