Lincoln Center Theater's LCT Spotlight Series continues with an audio play of Bill Gunn's THE FORBIDDEN CITY

Lincoln Center Theater’s free programme of digital events, the LCT Spotlight Series, continues with an audio performance of Bill Gunn’s 1989 play, The Forbidden City, on 29 April before being made available on demand.

Directed by Seret Scott, The Forbidden City stars James T. Alfred, Spencer Scott Barros, Derrick Baskin, Kyle Beltran, Ato Blankson-Wood, Jason Bowen, Alfie Fuller, John Benjamin Hickey, Roscoe Orman, Brenda Pressley and Ray Anthony Thomas.

The play premiered in March 1989 at the Public Theater, directed by Joseph Papp.  Set in Philadelphia in 1936, The Forbidden City examines how the bonds of a middle-class Black family are tested by the spectre of a tragedy that occurred many years prior in the Jim Crow South. 

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