Cody Spencer (Sound Design)

Broadway Review: “School Girls; Or the African Mean Girls Play” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Currently On)

Eighteen-year-old Paulina Sarpong (Denée Benton) commands the pack of four fellow students at Aburi Girls Boarding School in central Ghana with a chilling blend of charisma and cruelty. Beautiful and talented, she wields power the way a practiced bully does—not through aggression alone, but through the magnetism that makes her pack want her approval even as they fear her judgment….

Broadway Review: “Romeo + Juliet” at Circle in the Square (Closed Sunday, February 16, 2025)

In a recent “New York Times” guest essay, Drew Lichtenberg writes that although “the American theater’s relationship to the Bard might be fraying” with “a long history of theaters running from Shakespeare during times of political division or uncertainty, we need Shakespeare, especially in moments of conflict and unrest.” Currently running at Circle in the Square, Sam Gold’s production of…