Former Public Theatre head George C. Wolfe directs an excellent ensemble cast in this stirring adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's play about the eclectic residents of a New York boardinghouse in the '50s and '60s. S. Epatha Merkerson, Jimmy Smits, Jeffrey Wright, Hill Harper, Mos Def, Louis Gossett Jr., Rosie Perez, Liev Schreiber, Ernie Hudson, Carmen Ejogo, Patricia Wettig, Michael K. Williams.