In Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the second of August Wilson’s 10 play Century Cycle, all the action occurs in a boarding house run by Seth Holly (Cedric the entertainer) and his wife Bertha (Taraji P.Henson in an excellent Broadway debut.) The two ser …Read more

Years ago, I taught the book The Outsiders to classes of teenagers. My students were intrigued by the two warring gangs separated by economic circumstances: the Socs, wealthy kids in madras and khakis who had it all versus the Greasers with their hai …Read more

Actually, now playing at the Studio at Stage II at New York City Center, comes at a bleak time in the landscape of sexual politics. This moment is bleak not because things like abuse or rape have been nonexistent until now, but because the world now …Read more