The 1967 film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, starring Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, is remembered for its portrayal of a white couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home an African-American fiancé. Tonight, True Colors Theater debuts a stage adaptation.
WABE’s Lois Reitzes sat down with the play’s director Kenny Leon, and actor Tom Key.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner features Key, Tory Kittles, Phylicia Rashad, Tess Malis Kincaid, Andrea Frye, Afemo Omilami, Bethany Anne Lind, David De Vries, and Elizabeth Wells Berkes. It premieres tonight at the Rialto, and runs through July 29th.
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