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Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

January 21, 2021

Gary Morgenstein's A BLACK AND WHITE COOKIE is a new Off-Broadway Comedy/Drama about an African American Newstand owner encouraged to fight his exorbitant rent increase by an eccentric Jewish radical.


Directed by Joan Kane, A Black and White Cookie was originally scheduled to premiere at the Pulitzer Prize-winning Theater for the New City on March 26, 2020. There are plans to stage the show at TFTNC when in-person performances are again allowed in New York City.

The cast features Morry Schorr (Modern Family/ABC-TV), Roslyn Seale (The Color Purple/National Tour), Julie T. Pham (The OA/Netflix), Chris Collins-Pisano (Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation/Off Broadway) and Mansoor Najee-ullah (Mulebone, G.R. Point, The Mighty Gents/Broadway).