(Maya Phillips's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/4/2020; via Pam Green. To accompany this essay, the Baltimore-based artist Jerrell Gibbs painted "Portrait of August Wilson" (2020), exclusively for T.Credit…Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim. Photo by Joseph Hyde.) Perhaps no playwright has asserted the richness and complexity of everyday Black lives and language so deeply. […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:39PM on December 10, 2020