‘The Collaboration’ Review: A Basquiat-Warhol Bromance in Bloom
Presented by Manhattan Theater Club and the Young Vic Theater, this transfer from London is considerably less curious about whatever lies behind each man’s public facade. But Kwame Kwei-Armah’s production would like you to think it’s lifting the curtain on exactly that as it tells the early-80s New York story of Warhol and Basquiat’s work on those 16 canvases, and the friendship that took root between them.
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