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'Queens Girl' revisits the 1960s, from puppy love to Civil Rights by Nelson Pressley

Any list of premier actors in Washington has to put Dawn Ursula's name near the top, and the actress has been handed a dazzling showcase in the solo "Queens Girl in the World." Ursula plays an adolescent named Jacqueline Marie Butler, a black girl with a sunbeam spirit " and she effortlessly suggests everyone else in this comic memoir, including Jackie's hearty Caribbean father and white Jews when she is transferred …

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:46PM on September 22, 2015

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