'Beauty's Daughter' seen through new eyes at American Blues
When the poetic playwright Dael Orlandersmith premiered "Beauty's Daughter" in Midtown Manhattan in 1995, few had heard her name. This was before "Monster," "The Gimmick" or "Yellowman," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It was before Orlandersmith told "Stoop Stories," or imagined "Horsedreams,"...