AVERY BROOKS FINDS 'LOVE' IN BALTIMORE: Actor joins cast of Centerstage's Kwame Kwei-Armah play.

       Best known for his work on TV's "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Spenser: For Hire" and his own show, "A Man Called Hawk," the actor stars opposite Donetta Lavinia Grays and Gretchen Hall in a story that "reexamines our shared immigrant experience in a fresh and provocative way—finding a common humanity beyond racial, national, or cultural identities," according to press notes.      

       Directed by Jeremy B. Cohen, the American premiere of Kwei-Armah's work will play the Pearlstone Theater Feb. 10 through March 7, 2010.

       In addition to his television work, Avery Brooks was seen on Broadway in Paul Robeson, as King Lear at Yale Rep, and as Othello at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, where he also played the title role in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine.