The Encores! production of "Big River" is a pleasant enough confection but with a bitter aftertaste. To understand why, it helps to know that, when he was 11 years old, Samuel Clemens discovered the mutilated corpse of a man named Noriam Todd " an escaped slave who had been hunted down and killed. Four decades […]
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM on February 11, 2017