Daring to take on incendiary subjects of race and slavery is a risky move, but playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is not averse to controversy, and the awards and accolades keep coming – The play won an Obie and acclaim in New York, in addressing “…the complexity of American identities and their unresolvable connection to our legacy […]
Archives for June 6, 2016
Ada/Ava, chamber music and a coda for Spoleto Festival USA 2016
Sometimes the best of the “best in art” sneaks up on you. So it was with Spoleto Festival USA’s 2016 season. Maybe this year it had to do with the fanfare around the Festival’s “made-for-Charleston” production of Porgy and Bess. Or perhaps the contemporary opera with silhouette puppets of Helmut Lachenmann’s The Little Match Girl […]