Theater Review: Writing the Play His Curiosity Led Him To - By Felicia R.Lee (New York Times)

How did Matthew Lopez, a self-described “foxhole Episcopalian” from the Florida Panhandle, the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Polish-Russian mother, come to write a play about a Jewish Confederate soldier and two former slaves raised as Jews who, in the charred wreck of a Virginia home after the Civil War, celebrate Passover together? Read more