After Tragedy, an Indianapolis Theater Stages a Comeback
Bryan Fonseca, the founder of a notable company, died of complications from Covid-19. But at the theater named for him, the show goes on.
Latrice Young in the premiere of “Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson)” at the Fonseca Theater Company in Indianapolis.Credit...Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
May 24, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS — On a breezy, 80-degree evening, the sun still in the sky, the actor Chandra Lynch walked to the center of the Fonseca Theater Company’s outdoor stage-in-the-round. At her back was a semicircle of oversized blocks, each with printed words that together formed the sentence “Blackness iz not a monolith.”