The Hot Wing King

Name: The Hot Wing King
Start: 2023-02-10T00:00:00+0000
End: 03/05/2023
Location: Alliance Theatre

Written and Directed by P-Valley creator, Katori Hall

A fierce new comedy about the risk and rewards of being yourself.

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Hot Wing King is a fierce new comedy about the risks and rewards of celebrating who you are. It’s time for Memphis’s annual “Hot Wang Festival,” and Cordell knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and best friends who serve as his fry crew “The New Wing Order,” the group settles in for a fun night of pre-competition prep. But when a family emergency forces Dwayne’s troubled nephew into the mix, it quickly becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly, the first-place trophy isn’t the only thing that Cordell risks losing. Making its regional debut at Alliance Theatre and directed for the first time by its award-winning playwright Katori Hall (TV: P-Valley, Broadway: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), The Hot Wing King has been called “flavorful and bitingly funny” by New York Stage Review, and “a delicious new play to be applauded and savored” by Talkin’ Broadway.

Production Sponsors

The Black Leadership AIDS Crisis Coalition powered by AHF

Pulitzer Prize Winner

Regional Premiere

Coca-Cola Stage

This production is closed.

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