Fires in the Mirror burns brightly
“My sense is that American character lives not in one place or the other,” playwright Anna Deavere Smith writes in her introduction to her Pulitzer Prize-finalist play Fires in the [...]
A love song for Detroit
A dingy little break room in a failing Detroit automobile factory is the setting for Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau‘s play about Detroit’s working class now onstage at Artists [...]
“…the ‘thunder’ that is Fences”
Lou Bellamy, director of Portland Playhouse‘s current production Fences, accurately describes August Wilson‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play as “the ‘thunder’ that is [...]
Between Riverside and Crazy–a New York state of mind
When I saw Stephen Adly Guirgis‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, it put me in a New York state of mind. Now running at Artists Repertory Theatre, the play does not [...]