EXCLUSIVE: Marcus Callender, best known for starring in Power and Wu-Tang: An American Saga, is taking his Spades: The Play on a national tour.

The stage play is set to run 76 performances across Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans and Miami this fall, following a four-week debut run in Harlem last November.

“I consider Spades: The Play a love letter to us and to the culture. I spent ten years writing this play, with love, care and intention poured into every word,” the director and playwright says. “Taking it on tour and bringing it directly to the people is exactly what it was created for.”

He continued, “Great theater doesn’t have to exist within the walls of traditional confines — it comes from raw storytelling and relatable experiences that can live anywhere. I had the exciting opportunity to shape what theater looks and feels like for the culture, on our own terms and to me, that’s the future of theater.”

Set in 2013 Harlem, and based on true events in Callender’s life, Spades: The Play follows a close-knit group of twenty-somethings as they gather for their weekly spades game at a friend’s house. As the cards are dealt, playful banter turns to honest conversation about love, friendship, and the blurred lines between the two. The production stars Broderick Clavery (Extrapolations) as “Gill” and Akilah A. Walker (The Chi) as “Cori,” with Derrick Alexander as “Andre” and Erin Nicole Washington as “Nefertiti.”

The tour kicks off with an exclusive one-night-only performance at the historic Studio Museum in Harlem on September 3.

Each stop on the tour is hosted at a culturally centric venue. The run includes Culture House DC, a former Black church dating to the 1800s; Cam Kirk Studios in Atlanta; Wendy Raquel Robinson’s Amazing Grace Conservatory in Los Angeles; and Fire House Loft in New Orleans. It closes in Miami during Art Basel.

Spades: The Play Tour Dates

September 9-20: Washington, D.C. (Culture House DC)

September 23-October 18: Los Angeles, California (Amazing Grace Conservatory)

October 21-November 15: Atlanta, Georgia (Cam Kirk Studios)

November 18-29: New Orleans, Louisiana (Fire House Loft)

December 2-6: Miami, Florida

Tickets are available exclusively through Posh.

Myles Bullock Be is ready for some peepin’ and some creepin’ as he has nabbed the role of Dr. Dre in Snoop, Universal Pictures’ biopic of entertainment mogul and music icon Snoop Dogg.

Craig Brewer is directing the feature, which is being produced by Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, the veteran producer behind the semi-autobiographical Eminem drama 8 Mile, and the company’s Allan Mandelbaum. Snoop Dogg and Death Row Pictures president Sara Ramaker are also producing.

Jonathan Daviss, one of the stars of Netflix series Outer Banks, is portraying Snoop Dogg, who emerged from Long Beach, Calif. in the 1990s to become one of the biggest names in rap.

Key to his success was his relationship with Dre, one of the members of influential gangsta rap group N.W.A. In the early 1990s, as Dre made his seminal solo album The Chronic, he was given given a cassette of demo tracks featuring a young Snoop Dogg. He was impressed that he put Snoop Dogg on numerous tracks, including the mega-successful single ‘Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang.’

Dre became Snoop Dogg’s mentor and produced the latter’s debut album, Doggystyle, which is considered one of the key albums of 1990s.

Brewer, who recently directed Song Sung Blue for Universal’s specialty studio Focus Features, wrote the latest draft of the script, which was initially written by Joe Robert Cole. The feature will incorporate music from Snoop Doog’s vast catalogue.

Universal, which previously made 2015’s Oscar-nominated N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, will release Snoop on Aug. 6, 2027.

Imagine’s Jeb Brody is executive producing. Senior vp of production development Ryan Jones and director of development Tony Ducret are overseeing the project for the studio. 

For Bullock Be, Snoop reunites the actor with Brewer, who directed him in the 2024 Peacock mini-series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, which had the actor part of an all-star cast that included Kevin Hart, Taraji P. Henson, and Samuel L. Jackson.

The actor appeared in 20^th Century’s White Men Can’t Jump and a did a stint on Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s hit Starz series BMF, and earlier on starred in Marvel series Runaways.

Bullock Be, repped by Independent Artist Group and Liberman-Zerman Management, is currently shooting Hulu’s Prison Break reboot Prison Break: Black Creek as a series lead.