‘Clyde’s’ Broadway Review: Uzo Aduba’s Devil Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead in Prada
Maybe “best” should mean that actor or director who takes flawed or flimsy material and turns it into something worth watching. That’s the miracle director Kate Whoriskey performs with Lynn Nottage’s sketchy new play, “Clyde’s,” which opened Tuesday at Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theater.
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The Socially Conscious ‘Clyde’s’ is a Trope-Busting Masterpiece
Lynn Nottage has returned to Broadway with the ultimate flex: Clyde’s; a gut-busting comedy that leans into the sophisticated, yet populist, perspectives that she investigated through her previous play―the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat―that doubles as a multi-genre encompassing masterpiece loaded with more layers than a metatextual onion. On its surface, Clyde’s, which just opened at the […]
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At ‘Trouble in Mind’, School is in Session
When you hear “revival of a play” you’ll most likely imagine one of the countless Broadway productions of Mamet, O’Neill, or Williams featuring a celebrity. Roundabout’s production of Trouble in Mind certainly is not that. Strictly speaking, it’s not even a revival; a pre-show announcement informs the audience, “Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind premiered off-Broadway […]
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