BWW Review: New THE CAPE AND THE KLAN Is Entertaining and Much More
by Don Grigware
- Feb 20, 2018
What a rare treat to see a play based on true events that is simultaneously informative as well as entertaining! The Cape and the Klan by Tin Penavic and Ted Ryan is such a play. Now onstage at the Group Rep Theatre Upstairs, the play tells the story of how one newspaper writer infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and attempted to put an end to bigotry and violence via the Superman radio show on WOR radio.
The time is 1951, when the Klan continued to rear its ugly head in the South, l
