The most fun you can have at a three-hour epic about slavery. A huge, sprawling play (with six more parts still coming!) that boils down to a few simple conversations. A story that illuminates the African-American experience by way of Greek tragedy. Verse on the plantation, prose on the battlefield, and blues guitar in between. […]
Archives for February 4, 2016
Shake Loose at MetroStage (review)
If ever you feel that local talent can never be as good as what you’ll see and hear in New York or LA, consider this: sometimes people come here to see new stuff. ‘Local’ is relative.