JaJa’s African Hair Braiding
Don’t let the title fool you. Although set in a salon in Harlem and ostensibly about the art of hair braiding, Jocelyn Bioh’s cleverly executed comedy brings to life the […]
Photo by Javier Vasquez/Center Theatre Group
Towers-Rowles, Petrovic. Photo by Eric Keitel.
We Owe It All to All These Women
Theatre Forty has done us all a great favor in staging All These Women, a meticulously researched play by Melanie MacQueen, who also directs. After all, it is well known that the fight […]
Grace. Photo by Annielly Camargo.
Sardines
45 minutes of stand-up comedy about death? The concept might be uncomfortable-to-appalling for some, but Sardines isn’t traditional stand-up and is less about death than about being the one left alive. Chris […]
Photo by Jason Neidle/TETHOS
Come From Away
It’s hard to imagine that a play about planes diverting from their destinations to Gander, Newfoundland on September 11, 2001 after the bombings in New York and Washington DC would […]
Masters, Mulready, Carey, Kolbenheyer. Photo by Lisa Voll.
The Hills of California
The Hills of California, with their L.A. showbiz cachet, vaguely define the fierce dream of Veronica Webb (Allison Jean White), a Gypsyish mother in 1955 Blackpool, England, for her four daughters. […]
Skylight Theatre Hosts a Different View of the Hero, Achilles
It isn’t often that a play as outwardly straight forward as this one could be thought about as an ongoing daytime TV series, but my immediate impulse when I watched Achilles […]