Phylicia Rashad will direct ‘Blue’

Actress Phylicia Rashad is set to direct the Broadway premiere of “Blue,” producers announced Monday. The new staging of the Charles Randolph-Wright play, with music by Nona Hendryx, will run in spring 2020.

Rashad will make her Broadway debut as a director with this production. She starred in the world-premiere run in 2000 in Washington, D.C., plus subsequent runs at Roundabout Theatre Company and the Pasadena Playhouse.

“Blue” centers on the Clarks, a socially prominent Southern black family struggling with the legacy and pitfalls of their own good fortune. Rashad originated the role of Peggy Clark, the family’s fierce matriarch.