Though the story of Civil War has been explored thousands of times through almost every artistic medium, rarely has the irony inherent in the existence of the Jewish Confederate slave-owner been ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Winner of the 2011 Outer Critics Circle John ...

“The Whipping Man,” a deeply powerful 2011 drama by Matthew Lopez, imagines a reunion of a slave owner’s son, just back from fighting, and two of the family’s slaves in the last moments of the Civil ...

The Whipping Man examines a vital, but not often spoken of period in American history, the post-Civil War South, as former slaves and slave masters struggled to acclimate to the new emancipated social ...

Here's how the play (which has been seen in regional theatres around the country) is described by MTC: "Three men tied by faith, bound by secrets, at a crossroads — a Jewish Confederate soldier ...