Philadelphia Theater Reviews by Frank Burd

Sojourner Truth was born in Upstate New York around 1798, one of a dozen children of James and Elizabeth Bomefree. Her parents were slaves, and she was too. When she was an infant, two of her siblings were sold to different estates in what was once Dutch New York. Sojourner’s first language was Dutch. In… Read more

“Proof” is the story of Catherine, a gifted young mathematician, as she and her sister Claire, are dealing with the death of their recently deceased father, a brilliant mathematician himself, though a bit unstable. Catherine had given up her college and her plans for the future to return home five years earlier to care for… Read more