BY ALAN SHERROD It’s 1959 and the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is performing at a small, seedy bar in South Philadelphia called Emerson’s Bar and Grill. That is the basis for Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar…
Review: Clarence Brown Theatre’s ‘Trouble In Mind’ Throws a Powerful Spotlight on Lost Opportunities
BY ALAN SHERROD Had things gone differently for playwright Alice Childress in 1957, her play Trouble in Mind would have had the honor of being the first play written by a Black woman on Broadway. Of course, things didn’t…