Mekhi Phifer Stars In Black Family Broadway Drama

(Feature)Written by Associated Press, January 9, 2012  

NEW YORK— Mekhi Phifer is not used to being shouted at, but it’s part of his Broadway debut.

The 37-year-old actor, best known for the TV series “ER” and the film “8 Mile,” is discovering that audiences aren’t silent while watching him in “Stick Fly,” Lydia R. Diamond’s complex drama about a black family.

“People are spirited when they see this play,” he says, laughing.

Phifer plays Flip LeVay, a successful plastic surgeon and ladies’ man who attended Exeter and Harvard. Sparks fly when he and his younger brother bring their respective girlfriends — one black, one white — to meet their parents at their lavish summer getaway on Martha’s Vineyard.


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