‘Stick Fly’ Is Broadway-Bound in Production Presented by Alicia Keys

‘Stick Fly’ Is Broadway-Bound in Production Presented by Alicia Keys

New York may be a concrete jungle, but the bright lights of Broadway have inspired Alicia Keys to produce Lydia R. Diamond’s play “Stick Fly” in a new production that will come to the Lyceum Theater at the end of the year. Press representatives for the show said on Monday that Ms.

Keys, the “Empire State of Mind” songstress, will present the play, which she is producing with Reuben Cannon and Nelle Nugent, and which will be directed by Kenny Leon, the director of last year’s Tony Award-winning revival of “Fences.”

This incarnation of “Stick Fly,” which chronicles the interactions and revelations within a well-to-do black family at its home in Martha’s Vineyard, will mark the Broadway debut for Ms. Diamond, a widely produced playwright whose other works include “Voyeurs de Venus,” “The Gift Horse” and “The Bluest Eye,” an adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel.

“Stick Fly” received critical praise in previous productions at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., Arena Stage in Washington and the Huntington Theater Company in Boston. Ms. Keys said in a statement that the play “is so beautifully written and portrays Black America in a way that we don’t often get to see in entertainment.”

The Broadway production of “Stick Fly” will begin previews on Nov. 18 and its opening night is scheduled for Dec. 8. No casting was immediately announced, so maybe a role for Swizz Beatz?

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