A black man can't catch a break, even in a freak show. As Jake in "Side Show" (at the St. James), the mighty actor and singer David St. Louis feels protective of Violet and Daisy Hilton (the beautifully cast and tender Erin Davie and Emily Padgett), conjoined twins who are the star attractions in a carny spectacle run by the oily Sir (Robert Joy). The time: the late nineteen-twenties and thirties. Jake is a strong ma…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 04:15PM on November 26, 2014