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The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window
The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window David Cott Realism, minimalism, racism, intellectualism, antisemitism: robust performances and loads of theatricality in a revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 I’m enjoying. Rachel Brosnahan as Iris Parodus Brustein and Oscar Isaac as Sidney Brustein in The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Photograph: Julieta Cervantes. The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Windowwritten by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Anne Kauffman, BAM Harvey Theatre, 651 Fulton Avenue, Brooklyn, by March 24, 2023 • • • Nobody informed Lorraine Hansberry what was killing her. He knew she was critically ailing: the playwright had been out and in of hospitals for 2 years.…