Gordon Cox Theater Editor How is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play like a Marvel superhero? Ask Suzan-Lori Parks, the acclaimed writer whose 2001 outing “Topdog/Underdog” was her first show to arrive on Broadway after she’d spent years turning heads downtown with smaller-scale work. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “Each of my plays has a different superpower, and so ‘Topdog/Underdog’ was like — suddenly an arch appeared,” Parks said on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast. “Like a portal, that’s what it is.
I love ‘Doctor Strange.’ The first ‘Doctor Strange’ movie, when he’s making those portals! ‘Topdog’ opened a whole portal for me and I stepped through it and then I was on a totally different landscape.
After all that time I had spent making those spells and charms in the Off Off Broadway theater, I was now ready to sing the song in a way that was even more powerful. … Suddenly it could be heard in a different way.” The story of the tight, rivalrous bond between two brothers, “Topdog/Underdog” is back on Broadway this season in a new production starring Corey Hawkins (“In the Heights”) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“Watchmen”).
It’s directed by Kenny Leon, who is also directing an upcoming production of Adrienne Kennedy’s “Ohio State Murders” this fall.
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