
'Plays for the Plague Year' review — a compassionate chronicle of the pandemic
The band came on stage first, setting up their instruments amid a chair and bookshelf and coffee table that turned the Joe's Pub stage into a cozy living room. They warmed up. They chatted with each other. They waved at their friends in the audience. At Suzan-Lori Parks's Plays for the Plague Year, a theatrical concert chronicling the early days of the pandemic, these ordinary actions were celebrations of community. Pulitzer Prize winner Parks assembled this three-hour production from a...