I am a big fan of John Guare’s work. Six Degrees of Separation, The House of Blue Leaves and the screenplay for Atlantic City are all, unquestionably, brilliant. I am a (guarded) fan of his most ...
New Orleans in the early part of the 19th century was a singular place — and it still is. Before the Louisiana Purchase, the city’s racial and social barriers were permeable in ways they would never ...
A FREE MAN OF COLOR is a freewheeling epic set in 1802 New Orleans. Jacques Cornet, the title character, is a new world Don Juan and the wealthiest inhabitant of this sexually charged and racially ...