Theatre Review: 'Red Velvet' at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by June Keating

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 […]

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