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From The Boston Globe: When "Broke-ology'' opened last week at Lyric Stage Company, with an all-black cast performing a work by a black playwright under the guidance of a black director, the remarkable thing was how unremarkable it was.
Nathan Louis Jackson's heartfelt family drama, directed by Benny Sato Ambush, was just the latest of numerous recent area productions that have showcased predominantly black casts in plays that explored aspects of the African-American experience while also tackling universal themes.
"It's exciting and interesting and so noteworthy that there's this proliferation in Boston,'' remarks playwright Lydia R. Diamond, the acclaimed African-American author of "Stick Fly,'' produced last year by the Huntington Theatre Company, and "Harriet Jacobs,'' performed last year at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge. "It's promising that there's a wider range of voices.''
Read more about this boom in black voices in theater at The Boston Globe