Sidney Poitier wasn't expected to live long; he was born prematurely in Miami, where his parents, who were tomato farmers from the Bahamas, happened to be visiting in order to sell their produce. He was so sickly that his father bought a shoebox-sized coffin from a local undertaker.Poitier tells us this in The Measure of...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PM on January 9, 2022