Philadelphia Theater Reviews by Frank Burd

It is a backyard of neighboring South Philly row houses. In one lives Fran Geminiani and his son, Francis, a student at Harvard.  Bunny Weinberger and her son, Herschel, who seems to be on the spectrum of autism, live in the attached home and share the backyard. Both Fran and Bunny are single parents, each… Read more

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