Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness" features prominently in Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size, and for good reason. The play, which I first saw in 2009 as the middle section of McCraney's remarkable trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays, spins out ideas of roughness and tenderness in the lives of young Black men in 21st-century America. […]
SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 09:00PM on September 10, 2025