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'We Started Salivating From Minute One': The Original 1981 Cast of A Soldier's Play Remember Its Beginnings by Michael Appler

In the late fall of 1981, a handful of little-known actors gathered on the stage of a 300-seat off-Broadway theater on West 55th St. in Manhattan. The actors"among them were Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and Peter Friedman"sat down to read a new play. It was called A Soldier's Play by a young playwright named Charles Fuller; it was a psychological drama about the roots of self-hatred and internalized racism. W…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PM on January 27, 2020

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