Lorraine Toussaint (center) with Joseph C. Phillips (center right). Photo: Skip Dickstein The soirée was at the Steuben Club in Albany, a half-hour before the premiere. The gray-haired star of the evening had not been expected to make an appearance. The journalists, politicos, benefactors, and academics in attendance believed that the playwright (who did not consider herself a playwright) would forgo the festivities on account of presumed opening-night jitters. But there she was, wearing a bow-