Daniel Kaluuya will make his New York stage debut in Grass, a new play from Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Grass traces a mother and son’s surreal, sprawling road trip through the American South marked by fantastical encounters with historical and allegorical figures. A press release describes Grass as equal parts fantasia, memory […]
Daniel Kaluuya to Star in ‘Purpose’ Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Next Show ‘Grass’
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