Matthew Lopez's "The Whipping Man" is one of the most-produced new plays on U.S. stages right now, and watching the dark-and-stormy show that opened Wednesday at Baltimore's Centerstage, you can see why. The concept is fresh: A wounded confederate soldier and two of his family's slaves, all Jewish, reckon with the past and future just as the Civil War ends. Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26AM on April 13, 2012