Theater review: Sibling interplay riveting in Pico's 'The Old Settler'
As a snapshot of Harlem in 1943, John Henry Redwood’s “The Old Settler” evokes some historical artifacts that have faded into obscurity — party line telephones, the Savoy Ballroom — and others that stubbornly endure in more camouflaged form, i.e., segregationist tactics that stack the economic deck.