Tony & Emmy winner LaChanze to star in Roundabout's TROUBLE IN MIND

Photo credit: AP Images

It has been announced today that Tony and Emmy Award winner LaChanze will star in the Broadway premiere of Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind, running at the American Airlines Theatre from 29 October 2021-9 January 2022.

Presented by Roundabout Theatre Company and directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, the production is moving to Broadway following two recent development readings.

Following an experienced Black stage actress through rehearsals of a major Broadway production, Alice Childress’s wry and moving look at racism, identity, and ego in the world of New York theatre opened to acclaim Off-Broadway in 1955. At the forefront of both the Civil Rights and feminist movements, the prescient Trouble in Mind was announced to move to Broadway in 1957…in a production that never came to be.

LaChanze is a founding member of Black Theatre United and she returns to Broadway following A Christmas Carol (2019) and Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (2018), for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical.

The production features set design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costumes by Emilio Sosa, lighting by Kathy A. Perkins, sound by Dan Moses Schreier and original music by Nona Hendryx.

Full casting will be announced soon.

For more information, please click here.