Sheldon is the only playwright of non-African descent to write for the Billie Holiday Theatre stage in its five-decade history. It would have had to be a different play. “It doesn’t matter - white, black, Asian, gender - we are the same. If we can choose to do the right thing, we do the right thing. It’s just that sometimes doing the right thing, when you have the choice, isn’t possible.”Keith Powers covers music and the arts for Gannett New England, Leonore Overture and Opera News.

Source: MetroXpress August 30, 2021 11:37 UTC