Joan Marcus/ Playrights Horizons
Katharine Powell '99, left, played the idealistic Emma Joseph this fall in Amy Herzog's drama
After the Revolution at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. The
New York Daily News
called her "Anne Hathaway-pretty, fresh out of law school and marching
for justice to the longstanding Marxist traditions of her Village
family." Emma, who has created a legal foundation in memory of her late
grandfather, a Communist who denied his leftist politics under oath, is
disillusioned when she learns he sold U.S. secrets to Stalin. Worse
still is her discovery that other members of her family, including her
sister, Jess (played by Meredith Holzman, right) knew the truth about
his treachery and didn't care.