<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Or, How to Write a Smash Hit the First Time You Try</span> </span></p>
<p>The author and director of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Green Pastures” recalls the struggle to get a play about a black God produced in 1930.</p>
<p><span class="deck">When William Withers, Jr., stepped up to the conductor’s podium at Ford’s Theatre that April evening, he thought that the greatest triumph of his career was just a few minutes away.</span></p>
