Sump'n Like Wings

A gay playwright of partly Cherokee heritage, Lynn Riggs is remembered today mainly for his 1931 drama Green Grows the Lilacs, which Rodgers and Hammerstein adapted into Oklahoma! But he wrote dozens of other plays as well, including this coming-of-age tale about a teenage girl champing at the bit to free herself from her mother's control. Raelle Myrick-Hodges directs Mint Theater Company's production of what appears to be the New York City premiere of this all-but-lost work, which was published in 1928.