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Billy Porter To Direct Revival Of Broadway’s ‘The Life’ For Encores! Upcoming Season

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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997.Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores!

productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black lives; also in development is director Kenny Leon’s production of 1983’s The Tap Dance Kid.

The two productions – a third remains to be announced – will mark the long-running series’ first season under the artistic direction of Lear deBessonet.“I believe the future of a thriving Encores!

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