“Crimes of the Heart,” the culturally significant and always relevant Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Beth Henley, is experiencing a resurgence downtown, courtesy of Red Door Productions, from July 15 to July 26.
It’s a play after our collective heart.
What gives “Crimes of the Heart” staying power is its reminder that family drama and trauma are so often carried into adulthood.
After their father abandons their small-town Mississippi family, triggering their mother’s suicide (she takes the family cat with her),...