You wouldn't think that the subject of slavery would be an obvious choice for comedy. And yet the writer James McBride pulled it off with "The Good Lord Bird," his comedic novel about a young slave's view of the abolitionist John Brown, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013. And now playwright Richard Strand is doing much the same thing with Butler, a surprisingly genial comedy about slaves seeking sa…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:30AM on July 30, 2016