“My whole thing is, like, I just wanna have fun with it,” says hairstylist Evanie Frausto (pictured above, at right, with the singer Rina Sawayama) in “Hair Apparent,” page 100.
Common Ground
When the photographer Tess Ayano and stylist Jasmine Hassett assembled in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to shoot the talents behind On Sugarland (see Adam Green’s “Fresh Air,” page 86), much of the play’s ensemble cast was meeting for the very first time. (Above is Ayano, in purple, with actors Charisma Glasper, Kai Heath, Mister Fitzgerald, and Xavier Scott Evans.) The purity of their enthusiasm, coupled with visual references from the Harlem Renaissance, proved deeply inspiring. “It was beautiful to watch the actors bond over the course of the day, knowing they’d be spending countless hours rehearsing and performing together,” Ayano…
