Marina Gomberg: How Broadway’s Heidi Schreck finds hope in exploring our flawed Constitution and her dark moments

(Joan Marcus/Amazon via AP) Heidi Schreck in a scene from "What the Conststution Means to Me," which draws on Schreck’s experiences as a high-school debate champion and the lives of her female relatives to explore America’s principles and the struggle women and minorities have faced to be heard and protected by its founding document. In the work, Schreck calls the Constitution “a living, warm-blooded, steamy document,” but one in which women’s bodies were left out “from the beginning.”