The hardest thing to parse about the play Children of a Lesser God isn’t really that half the exposition takes place in a largely foreign language — specifically, American Sign Language. A play about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decades before “mansplaining” came along to fill a void in our national vocabulary, Mark Medoff’s Tony-winning play (and later ...

Mark Medoff’s “Children of a Lesser God,” in which a deaf woman and her speech therapist meet cute, get married and discover that he Just Doesn’t Understand Her, was a huge hit on Broadway in 1980 and ...

Decades before “mansplaining” came along to fill a void in our national vocabulary, Mark Medoff’s Tony-winning play (and later movie) Children of a Lesser God provided both a case study and a ...

In 1982, I bought myself a ticket in the rear balcony to see "Children Of A Lesser God," and it was revelatory. But now, 36 years later in its first Broadway revival, it doesn’t hold up all that well.