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Off-Off-Broadway Review: “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island” at The Producers Club

September 16, 2019 | LGBTQ+, Off-Off-Broadway, rikers island, sense and, the old man > | “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island”, Connor Chase Stewart, Eric C. Webb, Jacob Goldberg, LGBTQ, Prison Population, Prison Reform, Richard Roy, Rikers Island, The Producers Club, Thomas G. Waites

A grizzly and wisened Richard Roy emerges from the darkness at the beginning of “A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island,” currently running at The Producers Club, to introduce his autobiographical “guide” to surviving the prison environment he shared for six months of his young adult life on Rikers Island on a charge of negligent homicide. Roy then steps off…

Off-Broadway Review: “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage

The value of enduring questions is that they are not specific to a time or place or event. Theatre should be raising enduring questions and conflicts that playwrights (and their cultures) grappled with hundreds of years ago and remain relevant today. Stephen Adly Guirgis raises several such questions in the revival of his play “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train,” currently…