Trouble in Mind is a production that has had a long time coming in receiving its flowers from Broadway. It was written by Alice Childress and gifted to the public off-Broadway 66 years ago. The play is receiving new life through it’s director Charles Randolph Wright and lead actress LaChanze. He has built a very diversified and dynamic career in producing, writing, and directing for film, theatre, and TV, including OWN’s new series “Delilah.” Wright not only is directing Trouble in Mind on it’s new introduction to Broadway, but explains that he has connection to the production dating all the way back to his college years.
Do you feel internally connected to this production?
This is a play I first read in college and it floored me. That was many decades ago, and I couldn’t believe how prescient and present this writing was. Then, I started researching Alice and realized she was from South Carolina. I’m from South Carolina. She actually lived close to where my family lived in Charleston. There were all these similarities. So I had this this mild obsession, “fanboy,” I guess we call it now. Then she did A Hero Ain’t Nothing But a Sandwich, which was a film. Though different things were acknowledged, she did not get the Broadway acknowledgement she deserved.
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