Better late than never: after 60 years, Zora Neale Hurston's flavorful Polk County comes to life. (Critic's Notebook).

For years, copies of Zora Neale Hurs work collected dust, often in academic repositories under the care of scholars with little interest in the theatre. Blame it partly on the fact that, although the Harlem Renaissance author had written an estimated 30 theatre pieces by the rime she died in 1960, Hurston has been much better known for her anthropological writings and for prose fiction like her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Fortunately, just as Hurston the anthropologist unearthed tales from the lives of ordinary black folk--a choice of subject matter that, arguably, ...

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