PURLIE VICTORIOUS

Performances Begin May, 2026

BY OSSIE DAVIS
LOCATION VICTOR SHARGAI THEATRE
DIRECTED BY PSALMAYENE 24

Purlie is home on a mission—to buy back his father’s church and liberate the sharecroppers he grew up with from the brutal segregationist who still runs their plantation. Purlie Victorious features a madcap plot, survival techniques forged in the Jim Crow South, and satiric targets that feel as urgent as they did when the play premiered in 1961—its 2023 Broadway revival was nominated for six Tony awards. Psalmayene 24 (The Colored Museum) will direct this timely and lacerating comedy. 

The Artists

PLAYWRIGHT

Ossie Davis

DIRECTOR

Psalmayene 24