From left: Kacie Rogers (Berta) and DeJuan Christopher (Leroy) in Echo Theater Company's "Berta, Berta" (Photo by Makela Yepez...

DeWanda Wise (Sade) in "Furlough's Paradise" at Geffen Playhouse (Photo by Jeff Lorch) Stories about African American women often explore...

Lydia R. Diamond’s adaptation “The Bluest Eye”—deftly dramatizing Toni Morrison’s novel of the same name—is gracing Pasadena’s A Noise...