Daily News | The best theater in Philly this spring
examines the barrier-smashing life of Phillis Wheatley. Kidnapped from Senegal and taken to Boston, Wheatley was an enslaved girl who became a literary celebrity — earning rave reviews from the Founding Fathers — and the first major Black woman poet in the U.S., before dying at 31.
Playwrights Paul Oakley Stovall and Marilyn Campbell-Lowe explore Wheatley’s prose and her role in the country’s founding. Cheryl Lynn Bruce directs this production copresented by Quintessence Theatre and Chicago’s New Classics Collective. With music and lyrics by William Finn and a book by Rachel Sheinkin, adolescent spelling bee contestants unveil their life stories. The Arden Theatre Company’s intimate musical productions are typically a season highlight, and this comedy is a quirky charmer.
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