by Carol Rocamora     The key to appreciating Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original Red Letter Plays is knowing that she’s a jazz musician as well as a writer. As she herself explains, she’s done a “riff” or “contrafact” of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, that...

    By Brian Scott Lipton     The Place: Here. The Time: Now. It takes mere minutes, maybe even less, to realize how accurate those words remain regarding Suzan-Lori Parks “In The Blood,” even if director Sarah Benson’s first-rate production at the Signature Theater is...