Dawn M. Simmons
Abigail C. Onwunali’s powerhouse performance is memorable, but the mechanics of Mfoniso Udofia’s play don’t always match the lead’s boundary-stretching strengths.
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Set in New York in the mid-’50s, “Trouble in Mind” is a backstage dramedy that draws on the genre’s interest in the ambiguities of role-playing to condemn racial bias.
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The theme may be Black love, but the dramatist is too smart not to invite all of us to consider (or perhaps even reconsider) our personal definitions of what love means and how that changes the ways we relate to each other.
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Young Nerds of Color feels like a bit of an experiment, and it is the kind of creative research that we should hope will continue.
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A delicious, comforting gumbo of a Wiz with all the right ingredients for an upbeat, entertaining evening (or afternoon) at the theater.
Read MoreMen on Boats is a sometimes rollicking, at other times tedious, one-act play.
Read MoreThough Kenneth Lin wrote Warrior Class in 2012, it is easy to see its resonances with the 2016 election cycle.
Read MoreDramatist Katori Hall’s narrative unfolds with few surprises: every revelation, every secret, every comeuppance is foreshadowed.
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