Purlie Victorious *****
By: Samuel L. Leiter September 29, 2023: Shout hallelujah! Purlie Victorious: a Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch, Ossie Davis's stingingly funny 1961 satire about Black life in Jim Crow Georgia, is having its first (far too long belated) Broadway revival; like its title, it's victorious. Overshadowed by Purlie, its even more successful musical comedy version of 1970, it has nonetheless often been seen…
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