Row After Row — People’s Light & Theatre Company
Seven score and thirteen years ago, a relatively new nation, the United States, found itself divided over issues of states’ and human rights that centered primarily on the peculiar institution … Continue reading
Fences — People’s Light & Theatre Company
August Wilson’s finest play, “Fences,” is set in the 1950s, one of the more fertile and groundbreaking decades of American theater. Kamilah Forbes’s production of “Fences” for People’s Light & … Continue reading
Dear Elizabeth — People’s Light & Theatre Company
The brilliance of Sarah Ruhl’s play, “Dear Elizabeth,” is it is written so engrossingly and beautifully, it involves you undividedly in the relationship, creativity, affections, talents, upheavals, and health, mental … Continue reading
The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith — People’s Light & Theatre Company
Standing on a staircase that takes her three rows up on the stage right aisle, Miche Braden, portraying blues diva Bessie Smith, begins, a cappella, the plaintive wail, “I hate … Continue reading