Other works

April 2001: Played Billy Flynn in "Chicago" (Adelphi Theatre, London, England, UK)

(April 1998) Played "Joe Mott" in "The Iceman Cometh", a play by Eugene O'Neill (Almeida Theater, London, England, UK).

December 1990: Played Four-Eyed Moe in "Five Guys Named Moe", a musical by Clarke Peters (Lyric Theatre, London, England, UK)

December 2004: Played Melon in "Simply Heavenly" (Trafalgar Studios, London, England, UK)

July 2001: Played Darryl van Horne in "The Witches of Eastwick" (Prince of Wales Theatre, London, England, UK)

(August 1995) Played Nat 'King' Cole in "Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Story", a musical by Clarke Peters (Garrick Theatre, London, England, UK).

1996: Played Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls" (Royal National Theatre, London, England, UK)

February 2001: Played Billy Flynn in "Chicago" (The Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York, USA)

November 2003: Played Sean Beckwith in "Mourning Becomes Electra" (Royal National Theatre, London, England, UK)

1989: Played Toledo in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (Royal National Theatre, London, England, UK)

(2007) Porgy in Porgy and Bess in London's West End.

(1988) He acted in Alfred Uhry's play, "Driving Miss Daisy", at the Apollo Theatre in London, England with Dame Wendy Hiller OBE and Barry Foster.

(1977) He acted in Loften Mitchell's musical, "Bubbling Brown Sugar", at the Royalty Theatre in London, England with Billy Daniels, Lon Satton, Elaine Delmar, Stephanie Lawrence and Helen Gelzer in the cast. Robert M. Cooper and Charles Augins were the directors.

(1981) He acted in Vernel Bagneris' musical, "One Mo' Time", at the Cambridge Theatre in London, England with Bertice Reading and Bill Dillard in the cast.

(1985) He acted in Frank Loesser's musical, "Guys and Dolls", in an original Richard Eyre production at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, England with Lulu, Norman Rossington, Betsy Brantley, David Healy, Mark Hadfield and Anthony Pedley.

(July 1985) He acted in Frank Loesser's musical, "Guys and Dolls", in a British National Theatre production at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, England with Lulu, Norman Rossington, Lynn Webster (for Betsy Brantley), David Healy and John Warner in the cast. Richard Eyre was the director.

(1989) He acted in August Wilson's play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", in a British National Theatre production at the Cottesloe Theatre in London, England with Carol Woods-Coleman, Hugh Quarshie and Tom Chadbon in the cast. Howard Davies was the director.

(May 1989 - December 1989) He acted in the British National Theatre Repertoire Season at the Cottesloe Theatre, Lyttelton Theatre, and Olivier Theatre in London, England in Henrik Ibsen's plays, "Hedda Gabler," and "Whale;" David Lan and Joshua Sobol's play, "Ghetto;" William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet;" Moliere's play, "The Misanthrope;" David Storey's play, "The March on Russia;" Sean O'Casey's play, "Juno and the Paycock;" David Hare's play, "The Secret Rapture;" Harley Granville Barker's play, "The Voysey Inheritance;" Felix Lupe De Ovega's play, "Fuente Ovejuna;" Teatro Del Sur's production of the play "Tango Varsoviano;" Frank Galati's stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath," in a Steppenwolf Theatre Company production from Chicago, Illinois; Dion Boucicault's play, "The Shaughraun;" David Mamet's play, "Speed-The-Plow;" the play, "The Long Wat Round;" Pedro Calderon De La Barca's play, "Schism in England;" Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya," in a Moscow Art Theatre production from the Soviet Union; play, "Suicide for Love," in a Ninagawa Company production from Japan; Patricia Gordon's play, "The Magic Carpet;" Luigi Pirandello's play, "Man Beast and Virtue;" Georges Farquhar's play, "The Beaux Strategem;" Bertolt Brecht's play, "The Good Person of Sichuan;" Oliver Wilde's play, "Salome;" August Wilson's play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom;" and Martin Sherman's play, "Bent;" with Sheila Ballantine, David Bamber, Steven Berkoff, Brenda Blethyn, Richard Bonneville, Michael Bryant, Suzanne Burden, David Burke, Anna Calder-Marshall, Jason Carter, Michael Cashman, John Castle, Constance Chapman, Maria Charles, Ian Charleson, Graham Crowden, Jonathan Cullen, Daniel Day Lewis, Judi Dench, Susan Engel, Trevor Eve, Oliver Ford-Davies, Maria Friedman, Aidan Gillen, Stella Gonet, Frank Grimes, Jane Gurnett, George Harris, Tony Haygarth, Janet Henfrey, Guy Henry, David Horovitch, Geoffrey Hutchings, Harold Innocent, Alex Jennings, Paul Jesson, Rachel Joyce, James Laurenson, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Mark Lockyer, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jeremy Northam, Richard O'Callaghan, Bill Owen, Bill Paterson, Edward Petherbridge, Angela Pleasance, Pete Postlethwaite, Hugh Quarshie, Stephen Rashbrook, Crispin Redman, Terence Rigby, Linus Roache, Norman Rodway, Clive Rowe, Patsy Rowlands, Katharine Schlesinger, Fiona Shaw, Malcolm Sinclair, Maggie Steed, Juliet Stevenson, Jo Stone-Fewings, Tilda Swinton, Sian Thomas, Susan Tracy, Bridget Turner, June Watson, Janet Whiteside, Toyah Wilcox, Emil Wolk, and John Woodvine in the cast.

(1987) He acted in James Baldwin's play, "The Amen Corner", at the Tricycle Theatre in London, England with Carmen Munroe in the cast.

(1987) He acted in James Baldwin's play, "The Amen Corner", at the Lyric Theatre in London, England with Carmen Munroe, Claudette Williams, Sylvester Williams, Al Matthews and Stacey Zuckerman in the cast.

(1988) He acted in Alfred Uhry's play, "Driving Miss Daisy", at the Apollo Theatre in London, England with Wendy Hiller and Barry Foster in the cast.

(1992) Louis Jordan and his musical, "Five Guys Named Moe," was performed at the Lyric Theatre in London, England with Johnny Amobi, Kenny Andrews, Colin Charles, Peter Alex Newton, Horace Oliver, and Dig Wayne in the cast. Charles Augins was director.

(1995) He acted in Nat King Cole's musical, "Unforgettable - The Nat King Cole Story," at the Garrick Theatre in London, England with Donovan Carpenter, Edison Herbert, and Adrian Reid in the cast.

(1998) He acted in John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical, "Chicago," at the Adelphi Theatre in London, England with Ruthie Henshall, Nicola Hughes, Joel Grey, Meg Johnson, and Charles Shrivell in the cast.

(1998) He acted in Eugene O'Neill's play, "The Iceman Cometh," in an Almeida Theatre Company production at the Almeida Theatre in London, England with Kevin Spacey, Mark Strong, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nigel Cooke, Duncan Bell, James Hazeldine, Rupert Graves, Patrick Godfrey, Nicholas Day, Ian Bartholomew, John Rogan, Roger Sloman, Lisa Palfrey, Holly Aird, Emily Morgan, Robert Pugh, Tony Guilfoyle, and Owen Oakeshott in the cast. Howard Davies was director.

(1997) He acted in Frank Loesser's musical, "Guys and Dolls," in a Royal National Theatre production at the Laurence Olivier Theatre in London, England with Henry Goodman, Joanna Riding, Clive Rowe, and Imelda Staunton in the cast. Richard Eyre was director.

(January 1990-October 1990; December 1990-January 1991) He acted in the Royal National Theatre Season at the Laurence Olivier Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, and Lyttelton Theatre in London, England in Henrik Ibsen's play, "Peer Gynt;" Tony Harrison's play,"The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus;" Bertolt Brecht's play, "The Good Person of Sichuan;" Martin Sherman's play, "Bent;" Stephen Sondheim's musical, "Sunday in the Park with George;" Anthony Minghella's play, "Whale;" Georges Farquhar, "The Beaux Stratagem," David Hare's play, "Racing Demon;" August Wilson's play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom;" Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, "The School for Scandal;" Jean Racine's play, "Berenice;" Moliere's play, "Tartuffe;" "Abingdon Square;" Arthur Miller's plays, "After the Fall;" William Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet," "Richard III," and "Hamlet" (Bulandra Theatre); Terry Johnson's play, "Piano;" Brian Friel's play, "Dancing at Lughnasa;" Athol Fugard's play, "My Children, My Africa" (Market Theatre); Paul Godfrey's play, "One in a While The Odd Thing Happens;" Kenneth Grahame and Alan Bennett's play, "The Wind in the Willows;" Robert Lepage's play, "Tectonic Plates;" Dario Fo's play, "Accidental Death of an Anarchist;" and David Edgar's play, "The Shape of the Table;" with Annabelle Apsion, Jane Asher, Sheila Ballantine, David Bamber, Keith Bartlett, Lois Baxter, Duncan Bell, Stephen Bent, Brenda Blethyn, Richard Bonneville, Stephen Boxer, David Bradley, Elizabeth Bradley, Brid Brennan, Richard Briers, Michael Bryant, Suzanne Burden, David Burke, Ion Caramitru, Michael Cashman, Tom Chadbon, Maria Charles, Trevor Cooper, Allan Corduner, Oliver Cotton, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Neil Daglish, Nyree Dawn Porter, Stephen Dillane, Anthony Douse, Lindsay Duncan, Christopher Eccleston, Robert Eddison, Susan Engel, Oliver Ford Davies, Julia Ford, Maria Friedman, Lisa Fugard, Sean Gascoigne, Brian Glover, Stella Gonet, Henry Goodman, Jane Gurnett, Garrick Hagon, David Haig, Janet Henfrey, Guy Henry, Clare Higgins, Clare Holman, Harold Innocent, Peter Jeffrey, Hakeem Kae Kazim, John Kani, Ayub Khan Din, Adam Kotz, James Laurenson, Barbara Leigh Hunt, Alfred Lynch, Sara Mair Thomas, Michael Maloney, Eve Matheson, Alec McCowen, Ian McKellen, John Matschikitza, Stephen Moore, David Morrissey, John Normington, John Nettleton, John Neville, Jeremy Northam, Richard O'Callaghan, Richard Pasco, Bill Paterson, Pete Postlethwaite, Bruce Purchase, Hugh Quarshie, Philip Quast, Pearce Quigley, Denis Quilley, Oscar Quitak, Gary Raymond, Stephen Rea, Joyce Redman, Paul Rhys, Griff Rhys Jones, Terence Rigby, Barrie Rutter, Prunella Scales, Rapulana Seiphemo, Fiona Shaw, Paul Shelley, Jack Shepherd, Josette Simon, Malcolm Sinclair, Maggie Steed, Mark Strong, Meera Syal, Owen Teale, Bridget Turner, Philip Voss, Zoe Wanamaker, Toyah Wilcox, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Emil Wolk, and Albie Woodington in the company.

(February 1996-June 1996; July 1996-September 1996; December 1996-February 1997) He acted in the Royal National Theatre repertoire season the Cottesloe Theatre; Laurence Olivier Theatre; and the Lyttelton Theatre in London, England in Bertolt Brecht's play, "Mother Courage and Her Children; Stephen Sondheim's musical, "A Little Night Music;" Ben Jonson's play, "Volpone; Friedrich Schiller's play, "Mary Stuart;" Tom Stoppard's play, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead;" James McClure's play, "Wild Oats;" William Congreve's play, "The Way of the World;" Morris Panych's play, "The Ends of the Earth;" Aristophanes's play, "Frogs;" Pam Gems' play, "Stanley;" William Shakespeare's play, "Richard II;" "The Prince's Play;" Dennis Potter's play, "Blue Remembered Hills;" Wallace Shawn's play, "The Designated Mourner;" Sophocles's play, "The Oedipus Plays;" Albert Lamorisse's play, "The Red Balloon;" Robert Le Page's play, "The Seven Streams of The River Ota;" Henrik Ibsen's play, "John Gabriel Borkman;" Stephen Poliakoff's play, "Blinded by the Sun;" Leo Tolstoy's play, "War and Peace;" Harold Pinter's play, "The Homecoming;" Martin McDonagh's play, "The Cripple of Inishmaan;" Robert LePage's play, "Elsinore;" Caryl Churchill's play, "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire;" Frank Loesser's play, "Guys and Dolls;" Arthur Miller's play, "Death of a Salesman;" and Peter Oswald's play, "Fair Ladies at A Game of Cards;" with Roger Allam, Alun Armstrong, Eileen Atkins, Gillian Barge, Simon Russell Beale, Duncan Bell, Ed Bishop, James Bolam, Samantha Bond, David Bradley, Michael Bryant, Selina Cadell, Cheryl Campbell, Anna Chancellor, Sean Chapman, Alan Cox, Graham Crowden, Frances De La Tour, David De Keyser, Judi Dench, Paola Dionisotti, Lucy Dixon, Pip Donaghy, Lindsay Duncan, Avril Elgar, Tenniel Evans, Deborah Findlay, Michael Gambon, Henry Goodman, Michael Gough, David Haig, Greg Hicks, Patricia Hodge, Douglas Hodge, Ian Hogg, Alan Howard, Isabelle Huppert, Geoffrey Hutchings, Rhys Ifans, Louise Jameson, Paul Jesson, Karl Johnson, Will Keen, Sam Kelly, Robert LePage, Anton Lesser, Tom Mannion, Eddie Marsan, Anna Massey, John McEnery, Clive Merrison, Ben Miles, Iain MItchell, Dearbhla Molloy, John Normington, Trevor Peacock, Sian Phillips, Tim Pigott-Smith, Veronica Quilligan, Vanessa Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Joanna Riding, Diana Rigg, Clive Rowe, Andrew Sachs, Adrian Scarborough, Paul Scofield, Tony Selby, Cyril Shaps, Lesley Sharp, Fiona Shaw, Michael Sheen, Antony Sher, Geraldine Somerville, Imelda Staunton, Ken Stott, Mark Strong, Clare Swinburne, David Threlfall, Anny Tobin, Pip Torrens, Harry Towb, June Watson, Benjamin Whitrow, Lambert Wilson, Sarah Woodward, and Marjorie Yates in the company.

(August 1997 - October 1997) He acted in the Royal National Theatre repertoire season at the Cottesloe Theatre, Lyttelton Theatre, and Laurence Olivier in London, England in Henrik Ibsen's play, "An Enemy of the People;" Arnold Wesker's play, "Chips with Everything;" Tom Stoppard's play, "The Invention of Love;" Pierre De Marivaux's play, "Les Fausses Confidences," in a Comedie Francaise production; Samuel Beckett's play, "Oh Les Beaux Jours;" Frank Loesser's musical, "Guys and Dolls;" William Shakespeare's plays, "King Lear" and "Othello;" David Hare's play, "Amy's View;"and Patrick Marber's play, "Closer; with Simon Russell Beale, Maureen Beattie, Samantha Bond, Judi Dench, Jeffery Dench, Penny Downie, Julian Glover, David Harewood, James Hazeldine, Ciaran Hinds, Ian Holm, Collin Johnson, Finbar Lynch, Eddie Marsan, Ian McKellan, Iain Mitchell, Clive Owen, Trevor Peacock, Rupert Penry-Jones, Ronald Pickup, Joyce Redman, Amanda Redman, Paul Rhys, Joanna Riding, Clifford Rose, Clive Rowe, Catherine Samie, Claire Skinner, Imelda Staunton, Timothy West, John Wood, and John Woodvine in the company.

(2002) His musical, "Five Guys Named Moe," was performed at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, Leicestershire, England with Delroy Atkinson, Julian Cannonier, Paul Hazel, George Daniel Long, Colin Roy, and Marvin Springer in the cast.

(1996) His musical, "Five Guys Named Moe," was performed at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Dwayne Grayman, Derrick McGinty, Jesse Means JI, Andre Montgomery, John Eric Parker, and Dennis Stowe in the cast.

(August 1996) He wrote the book for the musical, "Five Guys Named Moe," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine. Louis Jordon wrote the book and lyrics.

(November 14 to December 28, 2014) His musical revue, "Five Guys Named Moe," featuring Louis Jordan's greatest hits was performed in co-production with the Cleveland Playhouse at The Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Robert O'Hara was director.

(July 15 to September 26, 1993) His musical, "Five Guys Named Moe," was performed in a West Coast Premiere in presented by the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California with Jeffrey Polk in the cast. Charles Augins was director and choreographer.

(2017) His musical revue, "Five Guys Named Moe," was performed at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois with Lorenzo Rush Jr. in the cast. Ron OJ Parson was director. Abdul Hamid Royal was music director. Christopher Carter was movement and musical stage director.