Broadway’s ‘Plaza Suite’: Sarah Jessica Parker play is frothy fun
The usual suspects will stick their noses up at “Plaza Suite” — it’s old, it has no relevance today, blah blah blah — but there is nothing wrong with some good ol’ opulence, one-liners and star power. Everything on Broadway need not be a brooding hipster musical with acoustic guitars and Edison bulbs.
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Time sways back and forth like a Newton’s Cradle in Dominique Morisseau’s new biting comedy Confederates, where the differences between understanding, or experiencing racism from a historical, intellectual context, and being confronted with it in a visceral way, become stark clear. The play tackles the subject of slavery in the raw, as well as its […]
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A Need for Black Criticism As Black Art Rises in Theater
Attending theater press performances has made me extremely aware of the lack of diversity in dramatic criticism. Every time I arrive at a show on or off-Broadway for a press evening, I scan the room like clockwork, looking for the other critics I am lucky enough to be in attendance with. Since the reopening of […]
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