The Washington Post, May 14th, 2001
Writer-director Tazewell Thompson is so smitten with Ida B. Wells, the early civil rights activist and journalist who is the subject of his "Constant Star" at Arena Stage, that he uses no fewer than five actresses to play her. As the performers busy themselves on Donald Eastman's high-ceilinged, uncluttered old newsroom set and pass phrases to one another like a vocal quintet working a melodic line, the production gushes: Just look at what a whirlwind Wells was! "Constant Star" follows Wells's life through Reconstruction to the cusp of the New Deal. It's a flurry of activity and anecdote, with...
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