History and art collide in Lolita Chakrabarti’s “Red Velvet,” a brilliantly written, brilliantly performed examination of the life of Ira Aldridge, a black man who left the United States to become a world-renowned Shakespearean actor decades before the Civil War. Directed by Shirley Basfield Dunlap, this production certainly lives up to the precedent of high quality […]
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:09PM on February 22, 2018