ALBANY, N.Y. — Lincoln and Booth — the two characters in Suzan-Lori Parks' searing 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning tragi-comic “Topdog/Underdog — are two Black men, siblings, living on the margins.

Alexander Heck, as Booth, and Michael Lake, as Lincoln, in a scene from "Topdog/Underdog."
Jeffrey Borak is The Eagle's theater critic.