''Clyde's'' is a play by

Lynn Nottage Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964) is an American playwright whose work often focuses on the experience of working-class people, particularly working-class people who are Black. She has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for he ...

that opened on

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on November 23, 2021, and closed on January 16, 2022, at the

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. The production was directed by

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and starred

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Ron Cephas Jones Ron Cephas Jones (born January 8, 1957) is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the drama series '' This Is Us'' (2016–2022), which earned him four consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning twice for Outstanding Gues ...

Edmund Donovan Edmund Donovan is an American theater, film, and television actor. Donovan won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Lucille Lortel Award and Obie Award in 2020 for his role as Joe in ''Greater Clements'' by Samuel D. Hunter ...

, Reza Salazar, and Kara Young.

Plot summary

Simulcast

On November 22, 2021,

Second Stage Theater Second Stage Theater is a theater company founded in 1979 by Robyn Goodman and Carole Rothman and located in Manhattan, New York City. It produces both new plays and revivals of contemporary American plays by new playwrights and established wri ...

announced that ''Clyde's'' would be live streamed from January 4 to 16 of 2022. It was captured by five to seven cameras mounted by Assemble Stream.

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

References

{{reflist 2021 plays Broadway plays Plays by Lynn Nottage