THE man in the train looked pale, haggard, and unhappy, and his face kept twitching in a pitiful and miserable way when he told me his story. ‘You must know,’ he said, ‘that even as a very young man I ...

Sitting across from Steven Broadnax III on his set, hours before the half-hour curtain call for a Saturday matinee at People’s Light Theater in Malvern, PA, I asked him about his research for his new ...