The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts is an unrestricted prize of $75,000 given annually to risk-taking mid-career artists working in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theatre and the visual arts.
"...epic drama that follows the fortunes of a slave who troops off to fight in the Civil War — on the Confederate side — Ms. Parks’s play, which opened at thePublic Theater on Tuesday night, seems to me the finest work yet from this gifted writer...And while I’m throwing around superlatives, I might as well add that “Father Comes Home From the Wars” might just be the best new play I’ve seen all year."
