The Brick and the New Theater Hollywood are pleased to present a staged reading of The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Ifa Bayeza and coinciding with MONUMENTS, an exhibition co-organized by The Brick and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Centering on the Foundling Father, a Black Abraham Lincoln impersonator who...
NEWS & REVIEWS: Jelly’s Last Jam Directed by Tyrone L. Robinson
Jelly’s Last JamBook by George C. Wolfe, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, music by Jelly Roll Morton and Luther HendersonDirected by Tyrone RobinsonThrough April 26, 2026, at Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol(215) 785-0100 or brtstage.org Review by An Nichols for the Broad Street Review 4/7 …The production elements succeed: Dr. Yatande Whitney Hunter...
NEWS & REVIEWS: GENE & GILDA at Detroit’s Tipping Point Theatre
GENE & GILDABy Cary GitterRuns through May 3Tipping Point Theatre, 361 E. Cady St., NorthvilleTickets are $25 – $47.www.tippingpointtheatre.com Review by Erica Hobbs for Detroit News Married couple Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were two iconic comedic actors, but who were the people behind the laughs? Northville’s Tipping Point Theatre is exploring the relationship...
NEWS & REVIEWS: MEXODUS, Choreographed by Tony Thomas, at the Daryl Roth Theatre
March 6 – June 14Daryl Roth Theatre – NYCWritten and Performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. RobinsonChoreographed by Tony ThomasDirected by David Mendizabal In Mexodus off Broadway, a fresh story reveals an untold historic era: when thousands of people escaped slavery by crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico. You know the story of...
NEWS & REVIEWS: HOW MY GRANDPARENTS FELL IN LOVE, A MUSICAL by Playwright Cary Gitter and Composer Neil Berg
In 1933, Charlie, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to America a decade earlier, returns to his hometown of Rovno in search of a bride. There Charlie meets Chava, who works at a hat shop and hopes to become a scholar. However, Chava’s ambitions for the future and the growing clouds of European anti-Semitism and...