Philadelphia Theater Reviews by Frank Burd

Two African-American brothers are struggling with work, women, and poverty, as they share a small, one room living space. Their names are Lincoln and Booth. Their father gave them those names as a joke. He left when the boys were 16 and 11. Their mother left two years earlier. They raised themselves. It is now… Read more

“Summer, 1976.” With a title like that, anyone over 65 today immediately tries to recall what he or she was doing then. I don’t even think that the theme of the Bicentennial enters one’s thoughts at first. The play by David Auburn presents us with two women who meet because their young daughters are in… Read more