Elyse Sommers blog uodate features 66-year-old play's triumpant Broadway debut

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November 22, 2021 Update LaChanze and Chuck Cooper In looking back on this season of Broadway reopening its doors, we might well tag it Broadway's Never-Before -Season — never before have audiences been required to wear masks throughout a performance. . . never before did theaters rely on those able to get to Broadway by foot, car, bus or train rather than for tourists from abroad . . .never before did so many prestigious venues book plays usually seen only Off-Broadway. And never before were so many of these works by Black playwrights..