"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it." James A. Baldwin Playwrights Lucy Thurber, Julissa Contreras and Christopher Cartmill, directors Lear deBessonet and Jenna Worsham and actors Alexander Lambie, David Zheng, Cesar Rosado and Kevin Mannering head down from NYC to Lexington, Virginia, and Washington and Lee University for a conversation about race, class, sexuality and the current schisms in the greater American conversation. "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."  James A. Baldwin This conversation has been inspired by the works of the great American writer and activist James A. Baldwin, who spoke to the complex issues of race, class and sexuality in mid-20th century America. And speaks eloquently still. How much has changed? What have we learned? What are we teaching? Can we talk about these things? Can we hear one another? Words resonate —rebound and redound. "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."  James A. Baldwin