Summer l. Williams
The beauty of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at this political moment is that it provides a firsthand rebuttal to the current administration’s draconian policies — without ever directly acknowledging them.
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
Read MoreAlice Birch’s play/polemic about radical feminism resists Company One’s earnest-to-the-max interpretation.
Read MoreBootycandy is sharp-witted and entertaining — but thoroughly sugary.
Read MoreCompany One’s actors are top notch and they expertly serve the production’s antiquated style of non-realistic acting.
Read MoreThe Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
Read More“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” suggests the dismissive attitude the public has toward African American actors, but the script doesn’t go far enough to make its title character three-dimensional.
Read MoreCharm’d magic casements, opening on the Foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. — To a Nightingale, John Keats, 1819 GRIMM: The Brothers’ Tales Remixed & Re-imagined . . . Written by Gregory Maguire, Kristen Greenidge, Melinda Lopez, Marcus Gardley, Lydia R. Diamond, John Kuntz, and John ADEkoje. Directed by Summer L. Williams and…
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard