Join Magic Theatre Artistic Director Sean San José, The N* Lovers playwright and music composer Marc Anthony Thompson, and Thompson’s daughter, actor Tessa Thompson for House Of Thompson, a special fundraising event and conversation at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture. Marc Anthony Thompson and Sean San José co-directed The N* Lovers.

House Of Thompson takes place Sunday, May 7, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. in Magic Theatre, Building D, third floor. Sean San José introduces the event and a short question-and-answer session with the Thompsons. Tickets are $100, but do NOT include admission to the 3:00 p.m. show of N* Lovers on Sunday, May 7, 2023.

Stars of music, film, television, and stage, the Thompsons delve into personal and professional conversations around Black Art, family, creativity, and culture, focusing on the aesthetics and ideas inside the new play The N* Lovers by Marc Anthony Thompson.

Magic Theatre’s second offering for the 2023 play season is The N* Lovers by Marc Anthony Thompson at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture. Marc Anthony Thompson is a world-renowned composer, songwriter, musician, and performer who has spent the past two decades creating new performance pieces for the stage with the great Roger Guenveur Smith.

In his first full-fledged play, Marc Anthony takes us into an inspired true story of The Crafts — a couple who miraculously escaped from chattel slavery at a plantation in Georgia to freedom in Boston, based on the couple’s own account: Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom: The Escape Of William & Ellen Craft From Slavery. A provocation in Black creation, from its brazen title to the intentional inversion of minstrelsy, The N* Lovers is a genre-shattering piece that layers original music and movement with film and engages audiences in the horror and humor of history masterfully retold.

The N* Lovers plays May 3, 2023 through May 21, 2023, Wednesday through Saturday, 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, 3:00 p.m. Opening night is Saturday, May 6, 2023, 8:00 p.m. Marc Anthony Thompson directs the play with Magic’s Artistic Director Sean San José. Tickets are available online.