Tag: Reconstruction
Review: ‘After Birth of a Nation’ at City Theater Company
Today’s audiences need farce. Wild men chasing beautiful women through many doors, visual running gags, women dressed as men, and vice versa, all enhanced...
Spine: Love, Greed, and Bigotry in The Folger’s ‘District Merchants’
There's no question that Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice is a problem play, fraught with old hates that were once considered justified and old beliefs...
Review: ‘District Merchants’ at Folger Theatre
District Merchants, in its world premiere at Folger Theatre, is a tour de force that explores the complexity of race and identity in Reconstruction-era...