Lighting design by Stacey Derosier

Off-Broadway Review: “The Receptionist” at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Through Sunday, June 7, 2026)

May 19, 2026 | Off-Broadway > | "The Receptionist", Adam Bock, costume design by Enver Chakartash, David Roberts, Irene Diamond Stage, Joan Marcus, Katie Finneran (Beverly Wilkins), Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Mallori Johnson (Lorraine Taylor), Nael Nacer (Edward Raymond), New York Theatre Reviews, Pershing Square Signature Center, Sarah Benson, Scenic Design by dots, sound design by Bray Poor, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Will Pullen (Martin Dart)

Adam Bock’s “The Receptionist” arrived in 2007 as a searing response to the Bush administration’s torture memos and the Abu Ghraib revelations. The play asked audiences to consider Hannah Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil”—how ordinary people enable extraordinary harm through the simple machinery of their daily work. Beverly answers phones, brews coffee, and gossips with her colleague Lorraine…

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Broadway Review: “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at the Barrymore Theatre (Through Sunday, July 26, 2026)

April 25, 2026 | Broadway > | "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", Abigail Onwunali (Martha Loomis), associate director David Blackwel, August Wilson, Bradley Stryker (Rutherford Selig), Cedric "The Entertainer" (Seth Holly), Christopher Woodley and Jackson Edward Davis alternating (Reuben Scott), costume design by Paul Tazewell, David Roberts, Debbie Allen, hair and wig design by Mia Neal, Joshua Boone (Herald Loomis), Julieta Cervantes, Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Maya Boyd (Molly Cunningham), New York Theatre Reviews, Nimene Sierra Wureh (Mattie Campbell), original music and music supervisor Steve Bargonetti, Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Bynum Walker), Savannah Commodore and Dominique Skye Turner alternating (Zonia Loomis), Scenic design by David Gallo, sound design by Justin Ellington, Taraji P. Henson (Bertha Holly), The Barrymore Theatre, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tripp Taylor (Jeremy Furlow), vocal coach Dawn-Elin Fraser

Joe Turner was real. Brother of the Tennessee Governor, he would swoop down on Black men in the early 1900s – gambling, preaching, just walking down the road – and keep them enslaved on chain gangs for seven years. “They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone / Got my man and gone” – the women sang it, a blues…

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Broadway Review: “The Last Five Years” at the Hudson Theatre (Closed Sunday, June 22, 2025)

April 14, 2025 | Broadway, last five, Music > | "The Last Five Years", choreography by Jeff Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman, Cody Renard Richard, costume design by Dede Ayite, Hudson Theatre, Jason Robert Brown, Joseph Verlezza, Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Matthew Murphy, New York Theatre Reviews, set design by David Zinn, sound design by Cody Spencer, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Whitney White, wig and hair design by Mia Neal

“The Last Five Years” featuring a book, music and lyrics, by Jason Robert Brown, has had a long journey since first opening in Chicago in 2001. It has had two off Broadway runs, two London runs (one West End), it was made into a film, and it has now finally arrived on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre. It is a…

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Off-Broadway Short Review: “Grangeville” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel Box Theatre (Closed Sunday, March 23, 2025)

Two half-brothers half a world apart face the decline of their mother in Samuel D. Hunter’s “Grangeville” currently on at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel Box Theatre. The mood of the conversations between forty-something Arnold (Brian J. Smith) who lives in Rotterdam and his older half-brother Jerry (Paul Sparks) who still lives in Grangeville, Idaho range from…

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Off-Broadway Review: The Public Theater and National Black Theatre (NBT) Production of “Fat Ham” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

June 29, 2022 | a christmas carol, black no, hamlet, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, public, public theater, the lonely few > | "Fat Ham", Adrianna Mitchell, Alexandria Brienne Lewis, Anspacher Theater, Benja Kay Thomas, Billy Eugene Jones, Calvin Leon Smith, Choreography by Darrell Moultrie, Chris Herbie Holland, Costume design by Dominique Fawn Hill, David Roberts, Fight direction by Lisa Kopitsky, Hair and wig design by Earon Nealey, Illusions design by Skylar Fox, James iJames, Jereme Kyle serves as the Production Stage Manager, Joan Marcus, Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Marcel Spears, Marquis D. Gibson, Matthew Elijah Webb, National Black Theatre, NBT, Nikki Crawford, Prop management by Claire M. Kavanah, Public Theater, RJ Foster, Ryan Kane serves as the Stage Manager, Saheem Ali, Scenic design by Maruti Evans, Sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman, Tanesha Gary, Theatre Reviews Limited

Things are going as well as they can as Juicy (a pensive, smart, and gay Marcel Spears who is thicc, beautiful, and lonely) and his cousin and oldest friend Tio (a relaxed and clever Chris Herbie Holland who is a stoner) set up for what appears to be his mother’s wedding reception at her house in North Carolina. Earlier in…

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