Summer l. Williams

Theater Review: “School Girls” — Teaching Lessons

May 6, 2019
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.

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Theater Review: “Barbecue” — Not Enough Meat on These Bones

April 18, 2017
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Beneath Barbecue’s jokes there’s little but a chic cynicism.

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Theater Review: Missing the Irony in “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.”

October 27, 2016
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Alice Birch’s play/polemic about radical feminism resists Company One’s earnest-to-the-max interpretation.

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Theater Review: “Bootycandy” — Bawdy and Sweet

March 22, 2016
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Bootycandy is sharp-witted and entertaining — but thoroughly sugary.

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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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Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Apparel” — An Affecting Vision of Constriction

March 2, 2015
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The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.

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Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — Take Two

April 9, 2013
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“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.

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Theater Review: “Grimm” but Entertaining

July 23, 2010
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Charm’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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