Kenny Leon’s Revival of Samm-Art Williams’s ‘Home’ Is Cause for Celebration

Guided by Leon’s unabashed passion for the material, these superb actors all mine the wit and wisdom underlying the quainter aspects of Williams’s play, revealing an account of faith repeatedly and harshly challenged, but finally affirmed and restored. The result is as exhilarating as it is poignant.

Joan Marcus
Brittany Inge, Tory Kittles, and Stori Ayers in 'Home.' Joan Marcus

Over the past two decades, Kenny Leon has done more than any other director to bring major and rising Black artists to Broadway, including stars such as Denzel Washington and Audra McDonald and playwrights ranging from Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson to Katori Hall. Two years ago, Mr. Leon helmed back-to-back productions of Suzan Lori-Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Topdog/Underdog” and Adrienne Kennedy’s “Ohio State Murders”; the latter, written in the early ’90s, marked the Broadway debut of a revered scribe who had just turned 91. 

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