Tag: Alice Childress

Wedding Band: a frightening love story

Penumbra Theatre, through November 12

Interracial marriage used to be illegal? Yikes. That was in the Bad Old Days. We now live, thank heaven, in an era in which love = love. Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court (Loving v. Virginia in 1967; the recent…

Trouble In Mind at the Guthrie Theater

“Justify!” demands the fictional director in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind a play-within-a–play drama now at the Guthrie, through June 5. “Justify,” spits back Wiletta in the second act as she struggles with the need to keep her acting job…