Notes On Theater - AMERICAN SON -- A Review by Patrick A. Bradford
BACKSTAGE STORIES Interviews | Reviews | Commentary Kerry Washington, Steven Pasquale, and Jeremy Jordan in AMERICAN SON photo by Peter Cunningham Notes on Theater by Patrick A. Bradford November 2018 "American Son" by Christopher Demos-Brown The Booth Theater, New York City, Broadway Limited Run through Jan. 27, 2019 (c) Patrick A. Bradford Kerry Washington's impassioned performance as Kendra, a desperate Black mother looking for her just-turned-eighteen year old, African American son in a Miami police station about 2 am in the here and now is the primary reason to see Christopher Demos-Brown's play "American Son." Ms. Washington, known the world over as the problem busting politico Oliva Pope on the hit TV show "Scandal," is an exposed nerve for the 90 intermission-less minutes. She is riveting. As Kendra, a university professor of psychology, Ms. Washington must do battle with three men be