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Off-Broadway Review: “Sojourners” and “Her Portmanteau” at New York Theatre Workshop

Playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s “Sojourners” and “Her Portmanteau,” currently running in repertory at New York Theatre Workshop, are exquisitely crafted and skillfully performed explorations into the life of determined matriarch Abasiama Ekpeyoung-Ufot (the younger played by Chinasa Ogbuagu and the older by Jenny Jules), her two husbands Ukpong Ekpeyoung (played with a willful distraction by Hubert Point-Du-Jour) and Disciple Ufot (played…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Orange Julius” Rattles Reality at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

February 4, 2017 | american psycho, evan ross broadway, evan ross off-broadway, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, the field, the nap > | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

“An Orange Julius. That’s what I want.” – Julius Basil Kreimendahl’s “Orange Julius” is a memory play. Narrated by Nut (Jess Barbagallo), the play defies space and time to tell the complex story of the narrator’s relationship with their estranged father Julius (Stephen Payne) a Vietnam War Veteran dying from cancer caused by exposure on the battlefield to the herbicide…

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Off Off-Broadway Review: AdA: Author Directing Author at La Mama Ellen Stewart Theatre

January 30, 2017 | evan ross broadway, evan ross off-broadway, LGBTQ+, Off-Off-Broadway, transl > | La Mama

Neil LaBute has teamed up with Marco Calvani and Marta Buchaca to present three plays that are “surprising takes on the idea of ‘power dynamics.’” He believes the plays “make for a fun and thought-provoking evening of theater.” Certainly power – its use and misuse – is a relevant topic for this third installment of Author Directing Author given the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead” at the Pershing Square Signature Center

November 23, 2016 | Best Bet, evan ross broadway, evan ross off-broadway, history, last stand city center, Off-Broadway, on the head of a pin, slave play, tim j ryan off broadway, watermelon > | Pershing Square Signature Center

“Yesterday today next summer tomorrow just uh moment uhgoh in 1317 dieded thuh last black man in thuh whole entire world. Uh! Oh. Dont be uhlarmed. Do not be afeared. It was painless. Uh painless passin. He falls twenty-three floors to his death. 23 floors from uh passin ship from space tuh splat on thuh pavement. He have uh head…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Crusade of Connor Stephens” Searches the Soul at the Midtown International Theatre Festival at WorkShop Theater’s Main Stage Theater

July 21, 2016 | evan ross broadway, evan ross off-broadway, LGBTQ+, Midtown International Theatre, Off-Broadway > | LGBT, Midtown International Theatre

Big Jim’s (James Kiberd) Baptist Mega-Church is expanding. More space is need for its growing congregation. That conservative congregation also seems to need a television studio and a gym with a basketball court for outreach and youth ministries. One of the church’s young recruits is Connor Stephens the teenager the church “took in and helped him and his mama get…

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