The spark for “Home Front,” an original play running through Feb. 19 at Burbank’s Victory Theatre Center, came 25 years ago when the first scene was written as part of a playwriting-focused benefit event.
Warren Leight, the Tony-winning writer (“Side Man”) and seasoned showrunner (“Law & Order: Svu”), couldn’t get the pages he’d written about an interracial love story out of his head. A widowed young white woman and a Black Navy officer fall in love after meeting in Times Square on V-j day as World War II ends and a new socioeconomic era dawns.
“It lingered,” Leight told Variety. “It was a romantic scene of infinite possibility.”
It would take three more decades, the loss of his uncle and a global pandemic for Leight to see the story come to fruition in its first full-scale production.
Austin Highsmith Garces, C.J. Lindsey and Jonathan Slavin star in a story...
Warren Leight, the Tony-winning writer (“Side Man”) and seasoned showrunner (“Law & Order: Svu”), couldn’t get the pages he’d written about an interracial love story out of his head. A widowed young white woman and a Black Navy officer fall in love after meeting in Times Square on V-j day as World War II ends and a new socioeconomic era dawns.
“It lingered,” Leight told Variety. “It was a romantic scene of infinite possibility.”
It would take three more decades, the loss of his uncle and a global pandemic for Leight to see the story come to fruition in its first full-scale production.
Austin Highsmith Garces, C.J. Lindsey and Jonathan Slavin star in a story...
- 1/29/2023
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
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