Adrienne Kennedy’s 1992 one-act play, which revisits the playwright’s time in college, has its Broadway début, directed by Kenny Leon.
In 1949, the writer Adrienne Kennedy, now ninety-one, enrolled at Ohio State University, where she became enamored with “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” but, as one of only a few Black female students, was stung by racism within the institution.
She revisited this time in her 1992 one-actThe play’s Broadway première is now in previews, starring the theatrical luminary Audra McDonald . Kenny Leon’s production marks Kennedy’s Broadway début, and the first show at the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre.
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