Matt Frey

Off-Broadway Review: “If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka” in the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons

Once upon a time, in a not so very long time ago there was a beautiful young Nigerian woman named Akim (a self-absorbed yet fragile Níkẹ Uche Kadri) whose Ma (a stern but loving Maechi Aharanwa) and Dad (a somewhat subservient Jason Bowen) project their own flawed conception of what real beauty is (a thoroughly Eurocentric standard of beauty) upon…

Off-Broadway Review: “Sundown, Yellow Moon” at the McGinn/Cazale (WP Theater)

March 20, 2017 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, the nap > | Anne Kauffman, Anne L. Nathan, Ars Nova, Eboni Booth, Greg Keller, Isabella Byrd, JD Taylor, Jessica Pabst, Lauren Helpern, Leah Gelpe, Lilli Cooper, Matt Frey, Michael Pemberton, Off-Broadway, Peter Friedman, Rachel Bonds, Sundown, The Bengsons, Theater Reviews, Tow Foundation, WP Theater, Yellow Moon

At sundown, when objects lose their precise “black-and-white” identity, the yellow moon begins to assume the role of providing “light.” Moonlight is far more forgiving than sunlight – it is the light of all things Eastern, leaving the bright Western light to its own devices of conditional judgement. It is the salvific murkiness of the yellow moon that draws fraternal…