Highlights

    1. PhotoDavid Hyde Pierce, left, as Walter and Ahmad Maksoud as Tarek in the musical “The Visitor” at the Public Theater.
      CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times

      Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times

      The new musical, based on the 2008 film and delayed by the pandemic, debuts at the Public Theater. But its story of a white professor helping immigrants feels out of step with the moment.

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  1. PhotoThe playwright Alice Childress captured the challenges of being Black in the theater world in her 1955 play “Trouble in Mind.”
    CreditPhotographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

    Alice Childress Finally Gets to Make ‘Trouble’ on Broadway

    Her prescient 1955 play about racism in the theater world is reaching the big stage. And it’s anything but a period piece.

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