Theatre review: 'Thurgood'

April 30, 2008 More effective as history lesson than theater, "Thurgood" is the sort of biographical one-person show that once populated Broadway stages with regularity. Marking the playwriting debut of George Stevens Jr. -- who dealt with the subject in ABC's 1991 miniseries "Separate but Equal," starring Sidney Poitier -- the drama serves as an excellent vehicle for Laurence Fishburne, here delivering a bravura performance. The star, wearing enough makeup to provide him with a reasonable physical resemblance to Thurgood Marshall, stands front and center and delivers a biographical account.

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