The week in theatre: King Hedley II; Rutherford and Son; The Starry Messenger " review
Royal Theatre Stratford East; Lyttelton; Wyndham's, LondonLenny Henry and Aaron Pierre are supercharged in August Wilson's epic while Roger Allam excels as a stern Edwardian patriarch August Wilson had a mighty project as a playwright. In a series of 10 plays he set out to chart the inner and outer experience of 20th-century African Americans decade by decade, plaiting together documentary and dream life. The result …