Original Article from LA Times by Daryl H. Miller
The power of the black experience
The show begins with a scene from George C. Wolfe’s deconstructionist comedy “The Colored Museum” in which a woman, dancing with joyous abandon, tells us there’s a party going on inside of her that connects her to “everybody and everything that’s ever been” a part of African American history. “My power,” she says, “is in my madness and my colored contradictions.” (more…)