The Peccadillo Theater Company
Negro Ensemble Company
Eric Falkenstein

present

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
by Lonne Elder III
directed by Clinton Turner Davis

starring Norm Lewis
(The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess, Les Misérables, TV’s “Pose,” Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods)

with:
Jeremiah Packer
Calvin M. Thompson
Bryce Michael Wood

Design:
Scenic: Harry Feiner
Lighting: Jimmy Lawlor
Costume: Isabel Rubio

Production Stage Manager: April Ann Kline

April 11th - May 18th, 2025

Playing at:
Theatre at St. Clements
423 West 46th Street
(between Ninth and Tenth Avenues)

It’s New York in the 1950s. Russell Parker, a ne'er-do-well barber and the widowed father of three adult children, spends his days playing checkers and reminiscing about his life in vaudeville as an old-style song and dance man. His two sons, Theo and Bobby, are dreamers of a different sort – a pair of petty criminals looking for a “score" in the form of ill-conceived and dangerous bootlegging and numbers schemes. Russell's daughter, Adele, the only gainfully employed member of the family, eventually threatens to walk out, refusing to work herself into an early grave like her mother. When Adele's long-simmering resentments boil over and the boys' criminal enterprise falls apart, tragic consequences ensue for the whole family.