Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green at Fountain Theatre

Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green

Fountain Theatre
5060 Fountain Avenue Hollywood

J. Alphonse Nicholson (Broadway's Tony award-winning A Soldier's Play; co-star P-Valley on Starz; Netflix's They Cloned Tyrone) reprises his off-Broadway, tour-de-force star turn as five versions of an African American everyman who travels through time in different incarnations, including a 19th Century minstrel, a faith healer, an FBI informant, a struggling actor and an out-of-work mortgage broker. In each life, Abel is guided, distracted, helped or hindered by a handful of characters with whom his destiny is forever intertwined. We meet each new iteration of Abel Green on a train, which changes in appearance in accordance with each time period and serves as a link between dimensions.

Thru - Dec 16, 2023

Price: $25 - $45

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 323-663-1525

www.FountainTheatre.com

Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green Reviews

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Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...How fascinating that two bookending one-man shows opened in Los Angeles this past weekend. The first, Just for Us at the Taper, is a play with universalisms and stories through a Jewish lens to largely comedic effect. The second, Freight, contains universalisms and stories told through a Black lens to a largely dramatic effect. At the Fountain Theatre, the strong, passionate, vulnerable, committed actor J. Alphonse Nicholson (A Soldier’s Play) inhabits the fictional character of Abel, a sort of Everyman Zelig who has five time-historical “incarnations” that elucidate parts of the African-American experience for a century beginning in 1910."

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- Tony Frankel

LA Splash - Highly Recommended

"...Playwright Howard L. Craft has vividly encapsulated the Black journey through the twentieth century in FREIGHT: THE FIVE INCARNATIONS OF ABEL GREEN. Starring J. Alphonse Nicholson as the solo time-traveler on a train bound for the twenty-first century, FREIGHT poignantly touches on key moments in Black history for the period. Directed by Joseph Megel, FREIGHT journeyed from Broadway in 2015, where the play garnered rave reviews, to Los Angeles. From 1910 boxcar to modern subway, this has been a momentous trip. FREIGHT makes its West Coast premiere in 2023 at the Fountain Theatre."

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- Elaine Mura

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...Audiences are flocking to the Fountain Theatre and with good reason. J. Alphonse Nicholson’s tour-de-force star turn as a man with five lives in Howard L. Craft’s off-Broadway-to-L.A. hit Freight is the stuff awards are made for."

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- Steven Stanley

On Stage Los Angeles - Highly Recommended

"...I loved catching up with Joseph Megel and am happy to report that the Fountain Theatre has made a good choice to bring this show to Hollywood. The opening night audience was on its feet and not without good cause."

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Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

"...Director Joseph Megel pulls the best out of Nicholson, and in the varied pacing and momentum, nothing seems rushed or too slow. Joel Daavid's set serves to elevates the telling of the story, vividly creating the world that the production lives in. Danyelle Thomas's costumes are similarly brilliant, each garment delivering a potent statement of the respective time in which it appears."

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- Julyza Commodore

Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green at Fountain Theatre