School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.
Summer l. Williams
Theater Review: “Barbecue” — Not Enough Meat on These Bones
Beneath Barbecue’s jokes there’s little but a chic cynicism.
Theater Review: Missing the Irony in “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.”
Alice Birch’s play/polemic about radical feminism resists Company One’s earnest-to-the-max interpretation.
Theater Review: “Bootycandy” — Bawdy and Sweet
Bootycandy is sharp-witted and entertaining — but thoroughly sugary.
Theater Review: “An Octoroon” — Racist Melodrama, Post-Modern Version
Company One’s actors are top notch and they expertly serve the production’s antiquated style of non-realistic acting.
Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Apparel” — An Affecting Vision of Constriction
The Lyric Stage is presenting a moving production of Lynn Nottage’s cautionary tale about strength of character tragically misdirected.
Theater Review: “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” — Take Two
“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.
Theater Review: “Grimm” but Entertaining
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 […]
