Though the story of Civil War has been explored thousands of times through almost every artistic medium, rarely has the irony inherent in the existence of the Jewish Confederate slave-owner been ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Winner of the 2011 Outer Critics Circle John ...

The Whipping Man examines a vital, but not often spoken of period in American history, the post-Civil War South, as former slaves and slave masters struggled to acclimate to the new emancipated social ...

“The Whipping Man,” a deeply powerful 2011 drama by Matthew Lopez, imagines a reunion of a slave owner’s son, just back from fighting, and two of the family’s slaves in the last moments of the Civil ...

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COLONIE — Passover. It commemorates the Exodus, when the Jews were freed from slavery. Wine, unleavened bread, bitter herbs and the like take on symbolic meaning during the Seder, which itself ...

At the tail-end of the Civil War, a weary and wounded Confederate soldier hobbles up to the front door of his family home in Richmond, Va., enters, and collapses in a heap. So begins “The Whipping Man ...

The Jubilee Theatre's south-southwestern premiere of Matthew Lopez's "The Whipping Man" may lack a professional polish, but nonetheless captures the inherent drama and emotion of the piece. Set days ...