Tag: Alice Childress

Wedding Band: a frightening love story

Interracial marriage used to be illegal? Yikes. That was in the Bad Old Days. We now live, thank heaven, in an era in which love = love. Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court (Loving v. Virginia in 1967; the recent…

Trouble In Mind at the Guthrie Theater

“Justify!” demands the fictional director in Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind a play-within-a–play drama now at the Guthrie, through June 5. “Justify,” spits back Wiletta in the second act as she struggles with the need to keep her acting job…