Alana Raquel Bowers

Off-Broadway Review: “Cold War Choir Practice” at MCC Theater (Through Sunday, April 5, 2026)

The most devastating moment in Ro Reddick’s “Cold War Choir Practice” is not a Soviet missile strike. It is an American bomb, planted by an American cult, detonating on South Salina Street in Syracuse, New York. As flames consume Davis’s Candy Emporium and Atomic Fireballs rain down like radioactive fallout, 10-year-old Meek (Alana Raquel Bowers) watches her nightmare made literal…

Broadway Review: “Chicken & Biscuits” at Circle in the Square Theatre (Closed Sunday January 2, 2022)

October 15, 2021 | Broadway > | "Chicken & Biscuits", Adam Honoré, Aigner Mizzelle, Alana Raquel Bowers, Circle in the Square Theatre, Cleo King, Devere Rogers, Douglas Lyons, Ebony Marshall-Oliver, Emilio Madrid-Kuser, Lawrence E. Moten III, Michael Urie, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Nikiya Mathis, Norm Lewis, Queens Theatre, Twi McCallum, Zhailon Levingston

Had the playwright, director, and creative team of “Chicken & Biscuits” taken a cue from their “Oklahoma” colleagues who occupied the same Circle in the Square Theatre space in 2019-2020, they might have inserted a break into their play’s overlong 120-minutes and served a small portion of chicken and biscuits to the members of the audience. This would have enhanced…