Better late than never.
Or rather: much, much better late than never.
As a pre-show announcement at the American Airlines Theatre makes clear, it took about 66 years for the pioneering Black playwright Alice Childress’s comedy-drama “Trouble in Mind” to make it to Broadway. Originally produced Off Broadway in 1955, the play was scheduled to transfer uptown — at least until the producers tried to pressure Childress into rewriting the play to soften the sharp points it makes about the racism prevalent in both American culture and the theater.
