A Black woman wearing an old-fashioned baseball uniform stand center stage. Her right arm is raised straight above her head, holding a baseball. The set around her suggests an old ball field, with a scoreboard suspended in the back and faded advertisements for Pepsi and other products on the low walls flanking the playing area.

Like theater, baseball has no set time clock by which the action must unfold. It takes as long as it takes to finish the nine innings. That can lead to longueurs, or it can raise the stakes. It all depends on the quality of the play and the players. Fortunately, Lydia Diamond’s 2019 play Toni […]

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