Chicken & Biscuits (play)

Chicken & Biscuits is a play by Douglas Lyons that made its Broadway debut in 2021 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The comedy's planned four-month run was cut short due to the challenges surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] Lyons made his Broadway debut as a playwright ten years after he did so as an actor in The Book of Mormon.^[2] The fall 2021 featured seven other Black playwrights, a Broadway record, and Zhailon Levingston was Broadway's youngest Black director.^[3][4][5]

Chicken and Biscuits
Written by	Douglas Lyons
Date premiered	February 28, 2020
Place premiered	Queens Theatre in the Park

The Broadway production starred Norm Lewis and Michael Urie in the story of a New Haven pastor's funeral that was disrupted by family drama.^[6][2][7]

Prior to its Broadway engagement, Chicken & Biscuits debuted at the Queens Theatre in the Park on February 28, 2020, and was the latter's first Broadway transfer.^[8][4]