"Langston & Nicolás" at Towne Street Theatre

Published April 21, 2010 at 5:44 p.m.
In Bernardo Solano’s riveting new work Langston...Nicolás, now debuting from the Towne Street Theatre Company at the Stella Adler, when controversial African-American poet Langston Hughes visited Havana in 1930, he quickly discovered on a tour of hotspots in the city that he wanted to be “as black as the music” he heard all around him. But to Cuban journalist Nicolás Guillén, later to become the country’s post-revolutionary poet laureate after a lengthy political exile from his native country by dictator Fulgencio Batista, Hughes was the man with all the potential to lead his people, a man he considered to be the “future of the black race” in the United States.

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