Opening
Director Lou Bellamy won an Obie a few years ago for his staging of "Two Trains Running," August Wilson's 1960s-set drama about race, urban renewal and social change. The play is set in a once-thriving restaurant and community mecca owned by Memphis Lee. It is to be demolished; Memphis is looking for a fair price. Bellamy has assembled some Wilsonian heavyweights for this Penumbra Theatre production, including James Craven as the diner owner, Crystal Fox as waitress Risa, Abdul Salaam El Razzac as Holloway, Dennis Spears as West, Kevin D. West as Wolf, Ahanti Young as Hambone (pictured) and James T. Alfred, who was spellbinding in last season's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," as activist Sterling.
