Lookingglass captures the ambiguity of baseball's barrier-shattering moment A shattered baseball barrier, but an ambiguous American moment
There's a moment in "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting," the terrific new show at the Lookingglass Theatre, when the caller of the 1947 meeting, Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, throws a crumpled shirt into the arms of Jackie Robinson. Javon Johnson, the actor playing Robinson, looks down at the uniform and all it represents, and his face first registers pride at a deeply personal ambiti…