Important new drama 'Oak Tree' looks racial violence right in the eye

Chicago Tribune: Precisely why Harry Lennix — television star, movie actor, producer, friend of President Barack Obama — is working in a tiny space on the third floor of the Athenaeum Theatre does not take long to reveal itself. The new play on which Lennix quietly is working, "A Small Oak Tree Runs Red," is an exceptionally gutsy, powerful and potent drama from Lekethia Dalcoe, a playwright without much of a profile beyond a few workshops and some minor festivals. That's about to change.