Red Velvet, the real life story of actor Ira Aldridge at Chesapeake Shakespeare (review) by Angela Carroll

In the early 19th century, Ira Aldridge, an African American actor and playwright, was performing on European stages. A fraction of Aldridge's miraculous story is portrayed in director Shirley Basfield Dunlap's wonderful adaptation of Lolita Chakrabarti's play, Red Velvet at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in Baltimore, MD.  It is astounding to consider what Aldridge was […] The post Red Velvet, the real …

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