'Purlie Victorious' Broadway Review: Leslie Odom, Jr. Keeps Ossie Davis' Groundbreaking Comedy True To Its Title
Long before Slave Play, decades before Ain't No Mo, there was Purlie Victorious, the Ossie Davis comedy masterwork that, like those descendant plays, fused broad comedy, satirical minstrelsy, racial satire and still-relevant social commentary to create a play that is so encompassing in its views of history and legacy, so generous in its humanity and […]