History hits home: Cleveland.(Front and center -- Bridgette Wimberly's new play, Forest City)
American Theatre, October, 2003 by Brown, Tony
IF YOU HAD TOLD BRIDGETTE WIMBERLY a decade ago that someday she would be a playwright, "I would have said that someday I'd be going to Mars, too," she says.
At last report, Wimberly was still firmly on planet Earth, but the former medical researcher is indeed a dramatist. Her first play, St. Lucy's Eyes, starred Ruby Dee at two Off-Broadway theatres in 2001 (it premiered at New York's Women's Project & Productions) and at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Company last spring, and a possible film version is under discussion. Now the New York-based writer's second ...
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