The Great White Hope Mainstage Date : 4/1/2010 - 4/18/2010
A drama by Howard Sackler
Directed by Terrence Spivey
April 1 to 18, 2010
This drama -- inspired by the life of boxer Jack Johnson, the fist black heavyweight champion of the world -- examines the American Dream as seen through the prism of race.
Prize fighter Jack Jefferson can beat almost any opponent in the boxing ring but encounters a greater foe in society at large when he dares to defy convention and his own community.
A co-production with Cleveland's Karumu House and Ensemble Theatre of Cleveland Heights.
Winner of the 1969 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
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Peter Lawson Jones plays Tick, Ursula Cataan plays Eleanor, and Anthony Elfonzia Nickerson-El plays Jack Jefferson in Howard Sackler's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Great White Hope." (Photo by Michael Oatman)
