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‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich

A review of Clyde’s by Jesse Green | November 23, 2021

But Nottage’s delightful new play, “Clyde’s,” which opened at the Helen Hayes Theater on Tuesday, dares to flip the paradigm. Though it’s still about dark things, including prison, drugs, homelessness and poverty, it somehow turns them into bright comedy. In Kate Whoriskey’s brisk and thoroughly satisfying production for Second Stage Theater, we learn that, unlike Oedipus and his mom, people who may have little else nevertheless have choices.

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The Socially Conscious ‘Clyde’s’ is a Trope-Busting Masterpiece

Juan Michael Porter II | November 23, 2021

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

Christian Lewis | November 18, 2021

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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