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Displaying all articles tagged:
Alice Childress
theater review
May 8, 2022
Alice Childress’s
Wedding Band
Returns, Well-Burnished
Childress’s bitter play, now married to a modern sensibility, returns on a wave of acclaim.
By
Helen Shaw
theater review
Nov. 18, 2021
Trouble In Mind
Deserved Better All Along
It takes the American theater to task.
By
Helen Shaw
appreciations
Jan. 8, 2020
Alice Childress Didn’t Defang Her Plays, and Producers Said No
Any list of great American playwrights is incomplete without her — she saw deep into history, into the theater, into blackness, into whiteness.
By
Helen Shaw
