Drawing New Fans By Striking Close To Home

A new play has been quietly building steam with some unconventional audiences this spring in New York. “Platanos & Collard Greens concerns itself with the tension between the African-American and Latino communities in New York and the overwhelming majority of men and women who go to see it, some over and over, are nonwhites.” Estimates are that by September, when the play ends its run, over 90,000 people will have seen it.