Stage Center announces 2024 inaugural production

November 28, 2023

Stage Center proudly announces the inaugural production of their 13th Mainstage season, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, opening January 5, 2024, for a three-performance run at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on the Centenary College Campus. Tickets go on sale Monday, December 18 online at www.StageCenterLA.com or you can call/text (318) 218-9978, Monday-Friday between noon-4:00 PM.

About Top Dog/Under Dog

Guest director Alex Hare (Broadway’s School of Rock and Side Show) guides our hometown hero (and history-maker for being the youngest black director to have a show play on Broadway) Zhailon Levingston, and Mikah Thomas (Harpo in last season’s The Color Purpl.) Topdog/Underdog, called “The greatest American play of the last 25 years” by The New York Times, is the recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2023 Tony® Award for Best Revival of a Play.

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, Topdog/Underdog tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln (Levingston) and Booth (Thomas), names given to them as a joke by their father. Haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con game, three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history.

For Mature Audiences.

Top Dog Under Dog by Stage Center in Shreveport

Performance Details

Stage Center will hold performances at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on the campus on Centenary College of Louisiana. You can catch the show at 7:30pm on Jan. 5 and 6, and 2pm on Jan. 7. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors/military and $18 for students. You can purchase tickets by visiting www.StageCenterLa.com.