New Broadway season continues with 'Road to Mecca'
The Broadway celebration of South African playwright Athol Fugard's 80th birthday kicked off last night, January 17, with the opening of "The Road to Mecca." Fugard's 1984 drama focuses on an elderly artist, Miss Helen (Rosemarry Harris), whose story is based on that of the South African Helen Martins. No longer able to care for herself, Miss Helen's welfare becomes a point of debate between a young friend (Carla Gu…