Theatre Development Fund – TDF: At first glance, Aasif Mandvi's Sakina's Restaurant at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre and Eleanor Burgess' The Niceties at Manhattan Theatre Club don't seem to have much in common. The former is a revival of a 20-year-old solo show in which the longtime Daily Show correspondent portrays a family of Indian immigrants in New York City. The latter is a new two-hander by an emerging playwright about a black student and her veteran white college professor locking horns over the presentation of American history. But dig a little deeper and you'll start to find thematic echoes as both productions deal with what it's like to be a person of color in a white world.
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