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Review: Marin Theatre offers dizzying details about Hemings and Jefferson in ‘Sally & Tom'

Did Sally Hemings love Thomas Jefferson? That question pops up multiple times in multiple ways-and is answered, both in the positive and the negative–in Suzan-Lori Parks' sprawling "Sally & Tom" ...
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‘Sally & Tom’ Frees Sally Hemings From Being a Mere Footnote

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Suzan-Lori Parks’s play is the latest work by a Black writer seeking to prioritize Hemings’s life and perspective to make her fully ...
The New York Times

Review: In ‘Sally & Tom,’ Plantation Scandal Meets Backstage Farce

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting ...