When the poetic playwright Dael Orlandersmith premiered "Beauty's Daughter" in Midtown Manhattan in 1995, few had heard her name. This was before "Monster," "The Gimmick" or "Yellowman," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It was before Orlandersmith told "Stoop Stories," or imagined "Horsedreams,"...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 03:24PM on July 17, 2017