Rachel Bonds

Off-Broadway Review: “Jonah” at Roundabout Theatre Company (Closed Sunday, March 10, 2024)

The time “Jonah,” currently running at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, takes place is described in the program as “The past and the present. But everything is slippery.” ‘Slippery’ is the operative word here. Everything is slippery in “Jonah” in addition to the time: the series of bedrooms in Wilson Chin’s cerebral and surreal design; the changeability and moodiness…

Off-Broadway Review: “Sundown, Yellow Moon” at the McGinn/Cazale (WP Theater)

March 20, 2017 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, the nap > | Anne Kauffman, Anne L. Nathan, Ars Nova, Eboni Booth, Greg Keller, Isabella Byrd, JD Taylor, Jessica Pabst, Lauren Helpern, Leah Gelpe, Lilli Cooper, Matt Frey, Michael Pemberton, Off-Broadway, Peter Friedman, Rachel Bonds, Sundown, The Bengsons, Theater Reviews, Tow Foundation, WP Theater, Yellow Moon

At sundown, when objects lose their precise “black-and-white” identity, the yellow moon begins to assume the role of providing “light.” Moonlight is far more forgiving than sunlight – it is the light of all things Eastern, leaving the bright Western light to its own devices of conditional judgement. It is the salvific murkiness of the yellow moon that draws fraternal…