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Horton Foote, Tarell Alvin McCraney tell family stories
Quick ReadIn marathons of multigenerational drama, growing up and growing old are all relative.
Photo credit: AP Photo/Joan Marcus | In this publicity image released by The Public Theater, from left, Nikiya Mathis, Kianne Muschett, Heather Alicia Simms, and Kimberly Hebert Gregory are shown in a scene from "In the Red and Brown Water," part of "The Brother/Sisters Plays" by Tarell Alvin McCraney, playing at The Public Theater in New York.
We're growing old together in the theater these days, literally as well as in the usual make-believe ways. Two playwrights who could not be less alike are preoccupying major chunks of our lives with multigenerational stories of families who grow up and old in multipart storytelling marathons.
The big news is Tarell Alvin McCraney, who, at 29, is arguably the most celebrated, distinctive and...
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