Theatre Baltimore: One Night in Miami

January 23, 2015 – Segment 2

We take a peek at the thought-provoking, inspirational and entertaining production currently playing at Baltimore’s Center Stage: One Night in Miami. The play is a fictional account of an actual event, a conversation between Cassius Clay (the night before he announced his new name, Muhammad Ali), Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke, in a hotel room in 1964 Miami, the night of Clay’s first defeat of Sonny Liston. With: playwright Kemp Powers; Director Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE,Center Stage Artistic Director; and actors Sullivan Jones who plays Cassius Clay and Esau Pritchett who plays Jim Brown.

Written by Marc Steiner

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