Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Television Review: “Kindred” — More than a Mystery

December 16, 2022
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In this adaptation for Hulu, Octavia E. Butler’s hybrid sci-fi novel has been reduced to a misguided time travel mystery.

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Theater Review: “Gloria” — A Drama About Journalistic Hell

December 7, 2018
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The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.

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Theater Review: Two New York Plays on Mortality and Living the Good Life

March 10, 2017
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Two fine new plays in New York meditate on dealing with mortality.

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Theater Review: “An Octoroon” — Racist Melodrama, Post-Modern Version

February 5, 2016
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Company One’s actors are top notch and they expertly serve the production’s antiquated style of non-realistic acting.

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Theater Review: “appropriate” — Southern Gothic, Entertainingly Deconstructed

September 19, 2015
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In appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.

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