Jeffrey Manor
The implacable Tonya Pinkins has always had a powerful voice, both onstage and off: She entered the musical-theater pantheon as the title character in Broadway's original Caroline, or Change, and has never been afraid of speaking her mind (as she did for three years on her podcast, You Can't Say That!). Now she ventures into playwriting with an intergenerational drama about dysfunction and resilence among Black women on the South Side of Chicago. Kiara C. Jones directs this one-day workshop for the Apollo Works in Process Series; the cast includes Perri Gaffney, April Mae Davis, Pernell Walker, Gillian Glasco, Chloe Kekovic and Aisha de Haas (who shone down on Pinkins as Caroline's Moon).