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Merry Wives Review: The Bard's Comedy, Black And Back Where It Belongs by Jonathan Mandell

"Merry Wives," Jocelyn Bioh's adaptation of one of Shakespeare's least performed comedies, which officially opened Monday night, is supposedly set among African immigrants during present-day Harlem. But it actually takes place in Central Park among theater-deprived New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when so many in the audience see the production as...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23AM on August 10, 2021

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