The African-American actor Ira Aldridge broke an imposing color barrier in theater. The play "Red Velvet" portrays a moment when the theater also nearly broke him. Lolita Chakrabarti's richly realized work, now getting a punchy and poignant staging at the Old Globe, turns that slice of history...
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PM on March 31, 2017