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By December 21, 2009
David Mamet debuts a new play on Broadway with a title that seems to sum up an entire season of thought-provoking shows in one word: Race.*
When David Mamet named his new play Race he couldn't have imagined he might be naming the fall season on Broadway. While race relations are certainly not a new topic for the theatre, especially for Broadway, the first new season of the Obama era is, perhaps not surprisingly, filled with an unprecedented number of plays touching on racial issues:
Ragtime tells three interlocking stories at the turn of the last century, one of which revolves around a black musician who tires of enduring racism and reacts with threats of violence.
Finian's Rainbow takes place in the mythical state of Missitucky, where white and black sharecroppers live together and a bigoted white politician turns black (and then white again).
Memphis tackles the tale of "race music" in the 1950s, navigating the tricky relationships between blacks and whites both in romance and on the business side of music.
Superior Donuts is about an aging white hippie and a young black writer forming a friendship.
A Steady Rain is about cops who think they've lost a promotion because of affirmative action, while one may be done in by his own racism.
Race explores the tension between two law firm partners — one black, one white — whose white client is charged with sexual impropriety with an African-American woman.
David Mamet debuts a new play on Broadway with a title that seems to sum up an entire season of thought-provoking shows in one word: Race.*
When David Mamet named his new play Race he couldn't have imagined he might be naming the fall season on Broadway. While race relations are certainly not a new topic for the theatre, especially for Broadway, the first new season of the Obama era is, perhaps not surprisingly, filled with an unprecedented number of plays touching on racial issues:
Ragtime tells three interlocking stories at the turn of the last century, one of which revolves around a black musician who tires of enduring racism and reacts with threats of violence.
Finian's Rainbow takes place in the mythical state of Missitucky, where white and black sharecroppers live together and a bigoted white politician turns black (and then white again).
Memphis tackles the tale of "race music" in the 1950s, navigating the tricky relationships between blacks and whites both in romance and on the business side of music.
Superior Donuts is about an aging white hippie and a young black writer forming a friendship.
A Steady Rain is about cops who think they've lost a promotion because of affirmative action, while one may be done in by his own racism.
Race explores the tension between two law firm partners — one black, one white — whose white client is charged with sexual impropriety with an African-American woman.
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