'Head of Passes' - Phylicia Rashad Rivets as Southern Matriarch
Phylicia Rashad and Francois Battiste in Head of Passes (©Joan Marcus) A deeply religious woman's faith gets rocked to its core in Tarrell Alvin McCraney's Head of Passes, a concurrently engrossing and uneven new play that opened last night at the Public Theater. McCraney transports theatergoers to a spot in the south where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico in “the distant present” t…