Thoughts of a Colored Man is a play written by Keenan Scott II that opened on Broadway on October 13, 2021.
It is Scott's Broadway debut,[1] and the play is the first Broadway show that was written and directed by Black men (Steve Broadnax III)[2] with a Black man in the lead role.
[4][5][6] The show ran at the Golden Theatre until December 22, 2021, when it was forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even though the playwright stepped in to cover one performance.
[10] Scott began working on what is now Thoughts of a Colored Man fifteen years earlier when he was a Frostburg State University student.
[1] A December performance of the show was recorded for preservation in the New York Public Library Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.