For Reele follows the story of an African-American man who, when he is released from prison and exonerated from an 18-year-old murder, finds his sympathetic past and magnetic personality catapulting him into the front-running spot of a local senate election. But as his public approval ratings skyrocket, the secret he buried 18 years earlier threatens to surface and destroy everything.
The show, directed by Doug Hughes, is scheduled to begin a limited engagement at the Roundabout's off-Broadway space, the Laura Pels Theatre, this winter.