Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Act 2 of “The Reclamation of Madison Hemings,” a Charles Smith play that is a good deal more visceral than its academic title ...

Written by Charles Smith and directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz, this Cleveland Premiere was originally commissioned by Indiana Repertory Theatre and is inspired by historical events. Set in 1866, one year ...

Manny Buckley (left) and Jon Hudson Odom in Charles Smith's The Reclamation of Madison Hemings at American Blues Theater Credit: Michael Brosilow Through 3/24: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM; also Sat 3 ...

It’s 1866, and the Civil War has ended. Madison Hemings, son of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and Israel Jefferson, formerly enslaved footman, return to Monticello in search of Israel’s ...

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SYNOPSIS: It’s 1866, and the Civil War has ended. Madison Hemings, son of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and Israel Jefferson, formerly enslaved footman, return to Monticello in search of ...

The past, they say, is a foreign country, and none, perhaps, more foreign to modern eyes than the Monticello of Thomas Jefferson and his slaves. It was a place where a woman could own her half-sister, ...

In Act 2 of “The Reclamation of Madison Hemings,” a Charles Smith play that is a good deal more visceral than its academic title suggests, a character named Madison Hemings, played at American Blues ...