Articles about School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
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regional " Chicago, IL: Goodman Theater's Albert Theater: 170 North Dearborn Street. July 30-Aug. 29, 2021 Comedy-Drama. Author: Jocelyn Bioh. Director: Lili-Anne Brown. 75 min. Critic: Mary…
Set in 1986 in the Aburi Girls Boarding School in Ghana, five teenagers gossip and primp as they prepare for beauty pageant auditions the following day. The social hierarchy of "mean girls''…
Jocelyn Bioh's smart comedy at the Goodman examines cliques, colonialism, and colorism.
From the Heathers to the Plastics, teenage girls and their cliques have p…
The Goodman's first show back is an exuberant production from the director Lili-Anne Brown that is an excellent match for the moment.
School is back in session! This biting and buoyant comedy was playing to packed houses when our stages went dark"and you won't want to miss its triumphant return.
July 30 - August 29, 2021.…
The Sean Hayes-led Good Night, Oscar, the musical adaption of The Outsiders, and more will come to Chicago.
Kamilah Forbes directs the benefit performance of Jocelyn Bioh's Lucille Lortel Award-winning play.
Acadamy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe has joined the cast of the upcoming benefit reading of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play. She replaces the previously announc…
Kamilah Forbes will direct the benefit stream of Jocelyn Bioh's Lucille Lortel Award-winning play.
MCC Theater has announced that Gabourey Sidibe and Lovie Simone will join the cast of the benefit performance of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which begins…
Proceeds from the streamed reading of Jocelyn Bioh's acclaimed play will raise funds for MCC Theater.
MCC Theater has announced today that they will present a benefit performance of the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award winning play School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play written by …
Kamilah Forbes will direct Jocelyn Bioh's Lucille Lortel Award-winning play.
Regional/Online " Chicago, IL: Goodman Theater. March 7-April 12, 2020. Comedy. Author: Jocelyn Bioh. Director: Lili-Anne Brown. Critic: Mary Shen Barnidge (May 2020). ***1/2 Ranking in popu…
The title of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play tells you a certain amount about what to expect from this funny and surprisingly moving play. Like the Tina Fey movi…
By Eva Phillips The ways girls behave and the things they do to one another within the overwhelming hives of school, their social structures, and their own minds is the source of great, and …
As the stage lights brightened on Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play, I was immediately taken back to my primary and secondary school days in Lagos, Nigeria. The butt…
"Jubilant!" Strange word to describe a play about skin tones, a mean girl with a foul mouth, and the lasting affects of colonialism. Yet, no other word works when it comes to School Girls; o…
Teenage girls can be mean " just ask Broadway's Tina Fey. But if you ask Jocelyn Bioh, the award-winning playwright of off-Broadway's School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, you'll ge…
DC Metro Theater Arts spent a day at rehearsal with the cast of Round House Theatre Company's season opener: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. Not only is this play a fabulous f…
WNET Thirteen also broadcasts MartÃn Zimmerman's On the Exhale August 16.
Ghanian-American's play is remarkable for not only skewering petty teenage female power grabs, but for exposing their root causes as deeply serious, systemic and colonial.
Off-Broadway's MCC Theater has announced that Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play will be captured on film by WNET-TV in advance of its December 9 closing da…
