Sunday, January 30, 2011

An Elaborate Mess

Regina Taylor�s overstuffed play

by Tony Adler



Although she's got a significant acting career, Regina Taylor is probably best known by now as a playwright, and particularly as the author of Crowns, a musical based on Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry's book about African-American women and their sometimes fantastical church hats. Taylor's new evening-length trilogy—the Trinity River Plays, now receiving their midwest premiere at the Goodman Theatre—reminds me of Crowns.…

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