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Why It's Radical to Let Girls (Of Color) Just Be Girls in "Good Grief" and "Usual Girls" by Jan Simpson

Something radical is happening on New York stages this season. It's mainly taking place off-Broadway and it's largely being driven by women of color who have written that most traditional of forms, a memory play about coming of age.What's radical about that, you ask?  Here's what: these stories aren't set in the inner city or some ethnic enclave and their primary focus isn't on how badly white people have treate…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:12AM on January 12, 2019

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