Jennifer Moeller | Theatre Reviews Limited

Off-Broadway Review: “Mlima’s Tale” at the Public’s Martinson Hall

April 20, 2018 | Off-Broadway, public > | Africa, Chris Walker, Cookie Jordan, Darron L. West, Ito Aghayere, Ivory, Jennifer Moeller, Jo Bonney, Joan Marcus, Jojo Gonzalez, Justin Hicks, Kenya, Kevin Mambo, Lap Chi Chu, Lynn Nottage, Mlima's Tale, Public Theater, Riccardo Hernandez, Sahr Ngaujah, The Public Theater, Thomas Schall

“I’m Mlima of the Great Plains. Eldest of my clan. I was tracked for many days, taken by a poison arrow. Why are there so many of you?! Mumbi? Koko? Do you hear me?” Mighty Mlima, “Kenya’s most famous elephant,” – the old, large elephant “with extraordinary tusks” – is murdered for those tusks by the Somali poachers Raman and…

Off-Broadway Review: “Tiny Beautiful Things” at the Public Theater’s Newman Theater

Watching “Tiny Beautiful Things” at The Public’s Newman Theater can be described as experiencing the vicissitudes of the human experience through the kaleidoscopic lens of sheer redemptive grace. The broken hearted, the beaten down, the bereft, and the “just broken” send their questions on coping, overcoming, and raging against all forms of the “dying of the light” to “Sugar” (Nia…