Groundbreaking plays by African-American women featured in Bed-Stuy readings
Christina Anderson’s ‘Man in Love’ this Sunday
Plays by five emerging African-American women playwrights are in the spotlight in New Brooklyn Theatre’s innovative spring reading series, The Second Century.
Bedford-Stuyvesant’s charming Akwaaba Mansion is the setting for the second reading of the season, “Man in Love,” by playwright Christina Anderson. “Man in Love” will be performed this Sunday, March 13 at 3 p.m.
The play takes place in a bleak, Depression-era city, where a disparate group of characters—including a white transwoman, a once-popular black nightclub singer and a student with a secret — manage to find love and a good time. But when a series of black female bodies turn up, fear causes the characters to search for protection from potentially dangerous individuals.