The Problem of the Hero (2023)
In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. Days from opening night, they differ over a single page of the script.
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Cast
- J. Mardrice Henderson — Richard Wright
- David zum Brunnen — Paul Green
- Derrick Ivey — Ray Collins
- Brandon Haynes — Canada Lee/Bigger Thomas
- J. Antoine Hendrick — Young Richard Wright
- Dena Konkel — Janet Green
- Josephine Hall — Nell Harrison
- Charlie Cannon — Orson Welles
- Lex Wilson — Walter Ash
- Alexa Yeames — Jean Rosenthal
- Annie McElroy — Anne Burr
- Calliope George — Ellen Wright
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