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REVIEW: Canadian Stage’s Wine in the Wilderness paints a lovely, if languorous, picture of 1960s Harlem, Theater News

iPhoto caption: Virgilia Griffith and Mazin Elsadig in ‘Wine in the Wilderness.’ Photo by Dahlia Katz. When I first read the synopsis of Alice Childress’ play Wine in the Wilderness, my interest was piqued. Set in Harlem, the play takes place during the race riots of 1964 in which New Yorkers took to the streets to protest the killing of a Black teenager by a white off-duty police officer. Any prior knowledge I had of Harlem had to do with the glitz and glamour of the Harlem Renaissance; I knew nothing of the 1964 riots. I suspected that…

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