Set on the Kansas frontier, 'Flyin' West' has its juicy melodrama and serious story, both
I first saw Pearl Cleage's "Flyin' West," a potboiler of a show set in an all-black frontier town in 1898, in Montgomery, Ala. It was 1998 and Cleage " a prolific novelist as well as a playwright " was soon to be the most produced African-American woman in the American theater at the turn of the...