A Song That Old Was Sung

AMERICAN THEATRE: English cannot hold my heart; there’s no word in the language for my visceral reactions to theatre this past month. In Brazilian Portuguese, we have words for belly laughs-turned-cries caught in the chest and sobs that heave with the rhythm of laughter: “chorar de rir,” “chorar de soluçar.” So powerful were the evocative tales of lineage this month. Theatre transported us across time and back to intimate corners of our souls in Pericles, Azira’i, Chicago Lore(s), Jocey y Las Mariachis, Becky Nurse of Salem, and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.