“Alice Childress was a force to be reckoned with in the theater, even if she didn’t always get her due. After all, she would have been the first Black female playwright on Broadway if she hadn’t refused to compromise on her work. That would-be first was her play ‘Trouble in Mind,’ which finally premiered on Broadway last fall. How fortunate we are to get her follow-up to ‘Trouble,’ ‘Wedding Band,’ a rarely produced play about an illicit interracial relationship in the South during World War I.”
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