From left: Ahkei Togun, Fana Minea Tesfagiorgis, Rama Orleans-Lindsay and Luis Kelly-Duarte in “Red Harlem” at Company of Angels (Photo by Rafael Cardenas) I t’s 1932, and in the midst of Hoover’s bid for reelection during the early years of the Great Depression, a member of Stalin’s Communist Party turns up in Harlem, New York, joins forces with the first Black candidate to run on a presidential ticket, and recruits a group of Black actors and performers to sail to the USSR

From left: Casey Dean-Buxton, Connor Keithley and Thomas McNamara in "And What of the Children?" at the Broadwater Black Box (Photo by Angel Moreno) Writer and director Ryan Lisman’s “ And What of the Children?” is a psychological drama. The play follows three siblings placed in witness protection after escaping a traumatic childhood in Alaska. More than a decade later, the fragile stability they have built begins to fracture as their past resurfaces. What unfolds is an exami

Paul Coates’ “Boy in a Box,” directed by Thomas Zoeschg at the Whitefire Theatre, is an unsettling one-man examination of race, history and confinement. The show follows Alexander MacMillian (Coates), a history professor who adopts a homeless “crack baby” and raises him inside a box. Through direct narration and pointed audience interaction, Alexander dissects America’s racial legacy and forces us to confront the psychological and literal consequences of living within imposed