At Studio Theatre, a Victorious Purlie

Ossie Davis’ antebellum South-skewering farce Purlie Victorious debuted on Broadway in September 1961, just under four years before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law and not quite 65 years before the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated it. Chief New York Times critic Howard Taubman’s rave opened like this: “It is marvelously […]