Director Rebecca Taichman, and actors Nabiyah Be and MaameYaa Boafo join us to discuss their new show, "School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play." Set in Ghana most pr…
The new play is directed by Rebecca Taichman.
MCC Theater has announced that the World Premiere of School Girls or, the African Mean Girls Play, written by 2017-18 Tow Playwright-in-Residence Jocelyn Bioh, and directed by Tony Award win…
Jocelyn Bioh's world premiere play School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play has been extended through December 31 at off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre. Tony winner Rebecca T…
The New York Times Critic’s Pick will now play through the end of the year.
Though the teenage girls at the center of Jocelyn Bioh's endearing and poignant SCHOOL GIRLS OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY all have wonderful qualities that should be appreciated and nurtu…
Jocelyn Bioh's snappy comedy provides a fresh take on the comedy of high school drama.
Her new initiative AYE DEFY asks what it means to be an Artist-as-Citizen.
Alison Walls reviews actress Jocelyn Bioh's debut play on a familiar trope. The post Review: School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play at Lucille Lortel Theatre appeared first on Exeunt …
Tony winner Rebecca Taichman directs the world premiere of Jocelyn Bioh's play for MCC Theater.
Recently extended, the production plays through December 23.
Jocelyn Bioh's world premiere play School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play has been extended through December 23 at off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre. Tony winner Rebecca T…
MCC Theater has announced the extension by popular demand of the World Premiere of School Girls Or, the African Mean Girls Play, written by 2017-18 Tow Playwright-in-Residence Jocelyn Bioh, …
Jocelyn Bioh’s acclaimed playwriting debut will now play to the end of the year due to popular demand.
The world premiere of Jocelyn Bioh's ​School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play opened at off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre on November 16. Bioh, director Rebecca…
MCC Theater presents the second show of its 2017-18 season the World Premiere of School Girls Or, the African Mean Girls Play, written by 2017-18 Tow Playwright-in-Residence Jocelyn Bioh, an…
Ms. Bioh's snappy dialogue perfectly renders the rhythms of teenage lingo and the pain beneath the bravado, emitting the universality of adolescence. Bioh's construction is meticulous as…
See what critics think of Jocelyn Bioh’s coming-of-age tale set in Ghana in the ‘80s.
While some theatergoers eagerly await the arrival on Broadway of the ultimate mean girl, Regina George, there's no need to sit at home until spring to get a dose of true nastiness.
Teenaged girls in Ghana prove they can be just as nasty" and as needy " as their international sisters everywhere. Delightful ensemble work from a cast of girlish thesps performing in "Schoo…
Jocelyn Bioh transports a familiar story to an all-girls school in Ghana.
Paulina is the most popular, the most ambitious and by far the meanest girl in the Aburi Girls Boarding School at the outset of Jocelyn Bioh's often unsubtle but ultimately stimulating new p…
In a recent profile in The New York Times, actress and playwright Jocelyn Bioh said it was her mission "to tell stories about African and African-American characters that buck expectation an…
By Sandi Durell There are a lot of mean girls around " not only in Ghana where this play takes place in the 1980s, but worldwide. And, there is another very different Me…
Jocelyn Bioh makes her professional playwriting debut with the coming-of-age tale set in a boarding school in Ghana in the ‘80s.