New Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah gets off to an astonishing start with his directorial debut production of Matthew Lopez's mesmerizing play The Whipping Man. Atmospheric and haunting, the play unfolds at the Head Theatre, almost like a desolate ghost story. Set in Richmond in 1865, the tumultuous close of the Civil War, in [...]
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AM on April 21, 2012