This Play Within a Play Confronts the Power Dynamic Between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson

Suzan-Lori Parks' Sally & Tom makes its New York debut on April 16. Joan Marcus The 21st century was brand new when Suzan-Lori Parks became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her play Topdog/Underdog had opened in the summer of 2001. It followed brothers Lincoln and Booth as they struggled against the dire circumstances they’d been born into: parental abandonment, racism, poverty. No one…