by Angelo Irving | May 24, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
A truly precious mother and daughter story that spans generations in Nia Akilah Robinson’s tender play The spirit of Henrietta Lacks runs through this play, which explores the under-discussed travesty of black bodies that were taken from their graves in the nineteenth...
by Angelo Irving | May 22, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
High octane gig-theatre is a sensory spectacle in this narrative-sapped musical by director Liesl Tommy’s First performed back in 2006, Passing Strange is a postmodern coming-of-age tale that sees a young black boy, simply known as Youth (Munn-Francis), escape the...
by Angelo Irving | May 22, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
A discomforting looking-glass into the soul of America, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ play explores how one man can ruin multiple lives across generations when his insecurities are left to fester. Written in 2010 during the Obama presidency,...
by Jay Darcy | May 6, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
This slow-burn Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Lynn Nottage has the potential to be sucker-punch, but is let down by direction that feels too safe. Sweat follows a multicultural, working-class community in the American Rust Belt that begins to fall apart when the...
by Mehdi Aziz | May 1, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
An intense yet bewilderingly bloated show of narrated memories leaves much to be desired in this adaptation from Kavita Puri’s acclaimed book of Partition testimonies. Silence is the latest incarnation (after a radio series and a book) of a ground-breaking project by...
