Arena Stage's 'Trouble in Mind': Character-rich and well-acted play about race
"White folks can't stand unhappy Negroes, so laugh," the veteran black actress instructs the young black actor in "Trouble in Mind," Alice Childress's wise and extraordinarily winning comedy-drama about American racial strife as it plays out in a New York rehearsal room, circa 1957. The counsel of Wiletta Mayer, portrayed in Arena Stage's wondrously effective production by E. Faye Butler, falls disconcertingly on the…
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