You never what you’re going to do when you meet the devil at the crossroads. Offer him a sandwich maybe? But does the perfect sandwich exist? Can it be created? A spicy egg salad with avocado-mayo and Greek-yogurt, with a garlic-zaatar aioli, fresh crisp romaine lettuce, sharp and pungent Manchego cheese, the ripest, firmest tomato, and fresh basil leaves on a toasted thyme and olive ciabatta. With a fresh parsley garnish on top. Pickle on the side.
Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel has local origins; originally a co-production between Baltimore’s Center Stage and California’s South Coast Repertory in 2003, it went on to a 3-month Off-Broadway run starring Viola Davis. The material also has a direct link to Nottage’s family history and was inspired by her great-grandmother’s life as a seamstress in the early 1900’s. Nottage found that the narrative and stories of black women in the early 1900’s were largely absent by researching her great-grandmother’s life.
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, was ambitious in 1993, taking on difficult subject matter, and the Maryland Ensemble Theatre is ambitious to take on such a challenging production. ‘Set in the mid-1980s amid the AIDS crisis and the Regan administration, the characters struggle with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell’*. Originally intended for a season three years ago but sidelined by COVID, Angels now marks the MET’s 150th production overall and falls during its 25th anniversary,