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A hit-and-miss coming-of-age tale, from late playwright Samm-Art Williams, covers aspects of the Black experience with detail but uneven direction distracts
Forty-four years after Samm-Art Williams' wonderfully affecting Home first opened on Broadway (in a Tony nominated production), the playwright and his signature play were finally about to get a long-hoped-for Broadway revival from the Roundabout Theatre Company.
Playwright Samm-Art Williams wrote "Home" in 1979, and this Roundabout Theatre production makes that time seem not so far away.
Samm-Art Williams' "Home," a play that should be much better known, is a small work about an ordinary, rural man's struggles in an unforgiving and often inhuman world, but also a simple, sweet drama about the pull of the land and an old sweetheart.
Samm-Art Williams, who made his mark in several fields — as an executive producer of the sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” as an ac