No one except perhaps Eugene O Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater. John Lahr, The New Yorker
A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson s career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written. Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Wilson s juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Gem of the Ocean is the play that...
No one except perhaps Eugene O Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater. John Lahr, The New ...
