It has been too long since the wife and I have had a night out by ourselves. So I took her out on a “date night” at the Barrymore Theater to see Race. Race follows “three attorneys, two black and one white, offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman.” The plot unfolds as the three lawyers and defendant grapple with the evidence of the case and their own feelings about race. Richard Thomas, David Allen Greer, Kerry Washington and James Spader all turned in magnificent performances. The Author of Race, David Mamet, has said that the “theme is race and the lies we tell each other on the subject.”
