Turn Me Loose Tickets
Now extended through July 17!
This show is closed.
Tickets at Westside Theatre
Turn Me Loose Discount Tickets
About Turn Me Loose on Broadway
Duration
90 (no intermission)
Audience
May be inappropriate for 16 and under
Previews
May 3, 2016
Opening
May 19, 2016
Closing
July 17, 2016
Story for Turn Me Loose
John Legend and Get Lifted Film Co. present a new comedic drama about the extraordinary and explosive life of Dick Gregory--starring Scandal's Joe Morton--that shines a light on the first Black comedian to expose white audiences to racial comedy.
Gregory confronted bigotry with shockingly disarming humor, marched alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., and deeply influenced comics from Richard Pryor to Chris Rock. He’s been a prolific writer, muckraker, provocateur, candidate for mayor of Chicago and for president of the United States. He was singled out by President Obama as one of his all-time favorite comedians. Experience the comic genius of Dick Gregory and the poetic final words of his mentor, slain civil rights activist, Medgar Evers: “Turn Me Loose.”
Extended by Popular Demand Through July 17!
Gregory confronted bigotry with shockingly disarming humor, marched alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., and deeply influenced comics from Richard Pryor to Chris Rock. He’s been a prolific writer, muckraker, provocateur, candidate for mayor of Chicago and for president of the United States. He was singled out by President Obama as one of his all-time favorite comedians. Experience the comic genius of Dick Gregory and the poetic final words of his mentor, slain civil rights activist, Medgar Evers: “Turn Me Loose.”
Extended by Popular Demand Through July 17!
Critics’ Reviews for Turn Me Loose
"Better than almost anything in any theatre!"
WABC-TV
"A brilliant Joe Morton TAKES YOUR BREATH AWAY" in the "SCORCHINGLY FUNNY" Turn Me Loose."
Charles Isherwood,
The New York Times
"One of the most ASTONISHING performances OF ANY SEASON” by “One of the BEST STAGE ACTORS of his generation“ giving “an UNFORGETTABLE PORTRAYAL of an UNFORGETTABLE MAN.” "
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