138 stories by "Brittani Samuel"
Instead of one Whoopi Goldberg, audiences now experience five actresses: Kerry Washington, Kara Young, Dominique Fishback, Danielle Pinnock and Kecia Lewis.
To these entities, every curtain rise fuels cultural change that reaches far beyond the stage.
The five girls in Eliana Theologides Rodriguez’s new play, about a “Native-inspired” program that trafficked in stereotypes, find ways to create their own experiences.
A stale revival of Adam Bock’s cog-in-the-office-machine dark comedy lacks specificity and bite.
A full-scale production of the Bengsons' deeply personal memoir musical is delivered via anthemic songs and remnants of home.
Ngozi Anyanwu's searing two-hander follows a brother and sister who train in boxing, side by side.
At Greenwich House Theater, Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell's stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel hovers between reverie and reality.
Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson take viewers south on the Underground Railroad in this electric production that feels like a jam session.
NSangou Njikam's latest offering is an ode to the erotic and the divine, set to winking R&B and hip-hop songs, in a new production by Atlantic Theater Company.
Sergio Trujillo architects a vivacious staging of the beacon Mexican mother-daughter story.
A powerhouse creative team orchestrates a stunning, one-of-a-kind musical about an extraordinarily strange human story.
Rupert Holmes' carnivalist revision of Gilbert and Sullivan's patter-filled comic opera undercuts its own funny.
Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin orchestrate an unforgettable, high-octane stage prequel to the knockout Netflix series.
Tina Landau leads a stately, musically ambitious production of her and co-creator Adam Guettel's doozy of a cave-digging musical.
Kimberly Belflower's richly textured dark comedy is a funny yet sobering wrestle with Arthur Miller's classic.
The inevitable Broadway adaptation of the backstage television drama suffers from a poor script, flat characters and performative progressivism.
The new musical isn't original, but excites nonetheless with glittering stagecraft and a knockout star.
The first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's slender, sublime musical falters from uneven casting.
A controlled George Clooney steadily leads the ensemble of this digital-heavy dramatization of the Murrow-McCarthy debate.
The third Broadway revival of the dismal real estate drama serves up functional stagecraft and well-executed performances, but can't locate its purpose.
Sarah Snook is a masterful shapeshifter in this triumphant one-woman adaptation of Oscar Wilde's once-salacious morality tale.Â
Starry performances can't fully salvage director Kenny Leon's indeterminate production of the Shakespearean tragedy.
British comedy troupe SpitLip brings a creative spoof of an implausible military operation to Broadway.
Marco Ramirez's musical " a transfer from Off-Broadway " skims over pre- and post-Revolution Cuban life, but vividly displays what came of it: incredible music.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' terrific new contemporary drama is an intimate look into an influential political family's behind-closed-doors behavior.
