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Can a black heroine fix the racist stereotypes infecting ‘King Kong’?
In new Broadway production, actress Christiani Pitts steps into the role first made famous by Fay Wray
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The subversive ‘Slave Play’ peels back the veneer of racial innocence in Northern whites
Jeremy O. Harris’ play puts interracial couples in sex therapy to show how whites see themselves as racially neutral
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Black death is haunting the theaters of New York this season
On and off Broadway, actors and audiences confront racist killings and the way they chip away at even the hardiest of souls
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Suzan-Lori Parks collects the Steinberg prize for playwriting
Anointed by James Baldwin himself, Parks continues to mischievously break boundaries
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Why Jordan Boatman just might be acting’s Next Big Thing
The actress is fiery and unafraid in ‘The Niceties’
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Kerry Washington’s ‘American Son’ shouts about race but doesn’t say anything new
New Broadway play parrots cable pundit talking points
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With ‘for colored girls,’ Ntozake Shange gave generations of black women a way to see God in themselves
Saying goodbye to a black feminist who always walked like a lion
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‘The Oath’ and two new plays question the white liberal fantasy that black women will save us all
In three works, women weigh pursuing freedom against losing their families
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William Jackson Harper frets about Chidi going shirtless on ‘The Good Place’
He’s also got a new play, ‘Travisville,’ that examines the civil rights era in a small Texas town