Now her work is influencing the stage. Butler’s 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” is heading to Lincoln Center in the form of an opera by the celebrated librettist Toshi Reagon ...

Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon adapted Butler’s dystopian “Parable of the Sower.” Their opera makes its New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City. By Salamishah ...