Telling Tales Out of School

This new play by Wesley Brown play offers a unique perspective on the Harlem Renaissance by providing a character study of four of its most-noted female prime movers — Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, and Nancy Cunard — revealing their ambitions, longings and resentments and illuminating the feminine energy they brought to the movement. Director is Woodie King Jr., founder and producing director emeritus of NFT and an iconic figure of Black Theater. King and NFT received a 2020 Tony Award for Excellence in the Theatre and the Off-Broadway Alliance named him a “Legend of Off Broadway.”