BY JESSICA NEU About halfway into Prime Stage Theater’s production of Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story, NAACP Rep & Narrator (DeVaughn Robinson) asks the audience to raise their hand if they were alive in 1960. Roughly a third of the audience raised… Read More ›
The year is 1960. A shy, smart 6-year-old named Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American student to attend a formerly whites-only grade school in New Orleans. Escorted to class by U.S. Marshals through a hostile segregationist mob, the youngster… Read More ›
By BOB HOOVER Defeated, angry Black men are at the center of numerous August Wilson plays. Still, none is angrier and more dangerous than Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, now playing at the August Wilson House, 1727 Bedford Ave.,… Read More ›
