Broadway Stars Broadway Stars

"An Octoroon" Transforms an Old Melodrama into a Postmodern Meditation On Race by Broadway & Me

The first time I saw An Octoroon it was a hot mess. Its director had quit the show, then called The Octoroon: An Adaptation Of The Octoroon Based On The Octoroon, two weeks before it was scheduled to open in 2010. Its playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins took over even though he had never directed before and, in the process, cut his two-and-a-half-hour play down to a confusing 90 minutes. The result was that embarrassed…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:44AM on May 17, 2014

« Back to BroadwayStars