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McCraney’s ‘Head of Passes’ at Steppenwolf: Keeping faith with no shelter from the storm

May 4, 2013 – 6:16 am
Aubrey (Glenn Davis), and Spencer (James T. Alfred) talk with their mother Shelah (Cheryl Lynn Bruce) in "Head of Passes" by Tarell Alvin McCraney directed by Tina Landau Steppenwolf 2013 credit Michael Brosilow

Review: ★★★★

August Wilson’s legacy resonates in vitality of African portraiture by playwright Danai Gurira

Mar 24, 2012 – 4:36 pm
Danai Gurira collage credit T Charles Erickson background

Report: All 20 precociously accomplished high school actors who took part in the August Wilson Monologue Competition at the Goodman Theatre were offered, as part of their winnings, free tickets to American playwright Danai Gurira’s “The Convert,” onstage at the Goodman through March 25. I hope they took the Goodman up on it. Wilson’s legacy is strongly continued with Gurira’s reflection upon her own African roots in a former capital of British colonialism.