Theater J's "Hampton Years": Vision and Courage in the World War II South
Jacqueline E. Lawton is a playwright of growing renown"a 2012 Theater Communications Group Young Leaders of Color award recipient and a member of Arena Stage's Playwrights' Arena. In The Hampton Years, she has taken on a vast challenge . Spanning a seven-year period from 1939 to 1946, the play explores the beginnings of an art department at the Hampton Institute"a vocational school for African American students in So…