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Of black voices at center stage. heres ron allen >> reporter: after a chorus of calls for change on broadway, seven new shows in the iconic theaters known for their brilliant lights at the great white way feature the work of black play wrights. from comedies like "chicken and biscuits" about hidden family secrets exploding at a family funeral to dramas like "thoughts of a colored man," about the hopes and dreams of seven young black men. or one man show about the adoptive mother who raised him w...

Get ahead and succeed but others who work just as hard struggle to just get by. i saw it in previews on tuesday night. i want dylans audience to learn about it. joining me is one of the lead actors along with the play wright. welcome, guys. david let me start with you. tell us about the steern what got you to take this on. >> its about south boston where i grew up. a woman lets get go from her minimum scene. for me he grew up in the neighborhood ive never written about my home town before. i kep...

Background end up with a clash in the revisiting 30 years ago with this woman with very different life circumstances who is ventsful in some ways of your success. your character wants to resist the idea that luck played role. >> she sort of comes and visits me, pushes her way into my doctors office and she wants a job and i havent seen her in 30 years and, you know, i do my best. i sort of end up inviting her to a party with some of my wealthy friends. its very funny and very human and very sort...

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