Common Talks Making Broadway Debut In Play, 'Between Riverside and Crazy,' Getting Into Therapy
Common will officially make his Broadway debut at the Hayes Theater in New York City for Between Riverside and Crazy, later this month!
His latest role as Junior in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play might just earn him a Tony Award nomination, bringing him closer to EGOT status. The actor, musician and activist already has several Grammy awards, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar.
"I just love acting. Now obviously I was grateful to get into a film, eventually after a minute, and then do some TV work, but I always wanted to do theater," Common said in an interview with WCBS-TV. "This made me say, listen, we have other things going on, but I want to do this, especially this play 'Between Riverside and Crazy.' This is the play."
"Junior, my character, is formerly incarcerated. So I've done a lot of work with people who are incarcerated," Common said. "It made me approach Junior and understand, like, I gotta show the whole human being, not just this dude that was incarcerated... If you go and allow somebody to be incarcerated and come out worse because of the way you treated them, that's making things worse. They're coming back to society."
Opening night for "Between Riverside and Crazy" is December 19th at the Hayes Theater.
In other Common news, the 50-year-old shared in a conversation on The View on Monday (Dec. 5) about going to therapy has helped him “build a healthier life” for himself.
“It’s been one of the most beneficial things in my life, to go to therapy,” he said. “I really learned a lot about myself, my father, my relationships and it helped me stop repeating things in relationships.”
Adding, “I share that information with other brothers, sistas, people who wouldn’t normally think about therapy and just ‘man, it’s alright to do it, to take care of yourself.”
See the clip below:
