New YorkHow do you get a new American play to Broadway? The best way—just about the only way, truth to tell—is to find a TV or movie star who wants to act in it. Witness “American Son,” which tells the grim tale of three black teenagers in a shiny new Lexus who get pulled over by a Miami patrol car one dark and stormy night. Written by Christopher Demos-Brown, a Florida playwright whose work is new to me, it has reached Broadway after just two regional productions, at Massachusetts’ Barrington Stage Company and New Jersey’s...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 08, 2018 21:00 UTC