Running through Feb. 22 at Skokie’s Northlight Theatre, playwright Amy Herzog’s 95-minute drama is simultaneously bleak and uplifting.

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I started reading James Baldwin in college, as a politically curious renegade-in-training. What appealed to me was his deeply philosophical outlook on race in America, the beauty of his prose, and how ...