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New City's 'Roseburg': A stirring fever dream of gun control, in 1968 - and now

The New City Stage Company's Roseburg, running through July 31 at the Adrienne Theater Second Stage, is a play about gun control, set in the 1960s, when great figures are being assassinated and Stokely Carmichael, ironically a former leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is encouraging the disenfranchised and marginalized to take up arms. It is a fever dream of political theater, and its timeliness…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:10AM on July 11, 2016

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