Jo Bonney

Broadway Review: “Cost of Living” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 6, 2022)

“Cost of living indexes are meant to compare the expenses an average person can expect to incur to acquire food, shelter, transportation, energy, clothing, education, healthcare, childcare, and entertainment in different regions.” – Investopedia The folks in Martyna Majok’s “Cost of Living,” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, are not “average people” and they experience the…

Off-Broadway Review: “Mlima’s Tale” at the Public’s Martinson Hall

April 20, 2018 | Off-Broadway, public > | Africa, Chris Walker, Cookie Jordan, Darron L. West, Ito Aghayere, Ivory, Jennifer Moeller, Jo Bonney, Joan Marcus, Jojo Gonzalez, Justin Hicks, Kenya, Kevin Mambo, Lap Chi Chu, Lynn Nottage, Mlima's Tale, Public Theater, Riccardo Hernandez, Sahr Ngaujah, The Public Theater, Thomas Schall

“I’m Mlima of the Great Plains. Eldest of my clan. I was tracked for many days, taken by a poison arrow. Why are there so many of you?! Mumbi? Koko? Do you hear me?” Mighty Mlima, “Kenya’s most famous elephant,” – the old, large elephant “with extraordinary tusks” – is murdered for those tusks by the Somali poachers Raman and…

Off-Broadway Review: “An Ordinary Muslim” at New York Theatre Workshop

“It won’t stay this – go back to Richard, make amends, sort your life out – but things will get better, easier, with time, people such as yourself ‘n your family start integrating more.” – David to Azeem What does it mean to be an ordinary Muslim? What does it mean to be an ordinary Christian? What does it mean…