Why It's Important That a Black Actress Play Jimmy Carter - Playwright Susan Lambert Hatem talks about her unconventional political history play
Playwright Susan Lambert Hatem talks about her unconventional political history play---A young man wants to know how it really went down in "the room where it happened." No, it's not a scene from Hamilton; it's from Susan Lambert Hatem's play Confidence (and The Speech), currently running at Theatre Row. Like Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash-hit musical, Confidence (and The Speech) is concerned with who gets to call the sh…