This very serious musical sounds as if it was written yesterday but it was first produced by the Public Theater in 2003, to muted acclaim. Add prescience to author Tony Kushner's already potent moral authority; his self-reflections on race relations ring as true as those on the AIDS crisis. Sharon D Clarke's shattering performance of "Lot's Wife"--as powerful as I've seen since Jennifer Holliday sang "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"--remind us that there's still a reckoning to come, no matter how many Confederate statues come down.
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