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Uzo Aduba on The View

Watch Now: Uzo Aduba Talks Starring in Clyde’s on The View

Uzo Adubda is back on Broadway, starring as the titular character in Clyde’s,  a play written by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage that is now playing at the Hayes Theater. Aduba stopped by The View to talk about the new play, what drew her to the character of Clyde, and what thrills her about being back o Broadway.

A Second Stage Theater production, Clyde’s features three-time Emmy Award-winner Uzo Aduba (In Treatment, Orange is the New Black), two-time Emmy Award-winner Ron Cephas Jones (This is Us, Truth Be Told, Between Riverside and Crazy), Edmund Donovan (Greater Clements), Reza Salazar (Sweat), and Kara Young (Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven).

In Clyde’s, a stirring and funny new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and her frequent collaborator, director Kate Whoriskey (Ruined, Sweat), a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner, Clyde (played by Aduba), tries to keep them under her thumb, the staff members are given purpose and permission to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich. You’ll want a seat at the table for this humorous, moving, and urgent play. It’s an example of Nottage’s “genius for bringing politically charged themes to life by embodying them in ordinary characters living ordinary lives” (The Wall Street Journal).

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