"Can you be Black and not perform?" Eisa Davis asks, then sings "No," while playing her keyboard. This is the central question, but not the only answer, in "The Essentialisn't." There's also another question hovering over the show: What is it? Davis, who collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda on "The Warriors" concept album last year, is...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PM on September 13, 2025