Mackie Tapped for Roundabout's For Reele
by Broadway Staff • Oct 28, 2004
Anthony Mackie is in final negotiations to star in the Roundabout Theatre Company world premiere of Stephen Belber's For Reele, according to Variety.
Mackie has appeared on Broadway as Sylvester in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and C-Trip in Drowning Crow. His off-Broadway credits include Up Against the Wind and Talk. Mackie also has a rising film career, having starred in the Spike Lee film She Hate Me. His other film credits include 8 Mile, Hollywood Homicide, The Manchurian Candidate and Haven.
Mackie has appeared on Broadway as Sylvester in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and C-Trip in Drowning Crow. His off-Broadway credits include Up Against the Wind and Talk. Mackie also has a rising film career, having starred in the Spike Lee film She Hate Me. His other film credits include 8 Mile, Hollywood Homicide, The Manchurian Candidate and Haven.
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.