“Sally & Tom” contains a play with the play. It is unimaginatively titled “The Pursuit of Happiness,” and that giveaway tells us that we’re not supposed to see it as a very good play. Performed by a ...

Suzan-Lori Parks' backstage drama follows the making of a play-within-a-play about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

History and art are always more nuanced than we can possibly imagine. “Sally & Tom” goes a long way toward illuminating both of them.

If you’ve ever encountered an interview with a historian who’s written about the relationship of American “founding father” Thomas Jefferson and the mother of most of his children, Sally Hemings, ...

In Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Topdog/Underdog,” which had an explosive revival on Broadway two years ago, the sole characters are named Lincoln and Booth. In her new play, “Sally & Tom ...

Ownership rests at the base of the American blueprint. Our nation’s framers were not just proprietors of land and humans, they also controlled the narrative. One of America’s most well-known ...