Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind made its off-Broadway debut in 1955, but it never made the leap to the Great White Way (emphasis most definitely on “White”). The white producers demanded that Childress give her story about racism in the American theater a happier ending depicting racial harmony. (Pause for irony.) Childress refused at first, […]
Tag: Tim Decker
Posted inArts & Culture
A new Hamlet puts the prince of Denmark in a context all too familiar to many Chicagoans
Chicago Shakespeare’s staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.
Posted inArts & Culture
Two British monarchs duke it out in Schiller’s Mary Stuart
A pair of 16th century queens explore what it means to be a woman in a so-called man’s profession.