W. Tré Davis

Off-Broadway Review: Tambo & Bones” at Playwrights Horizons (Closed Sunday, February 27, 2022)

February 7, 2022 | back the future, Off-Broadway > | "Tambo & Bones", Amith Chandrashaker, Brendan Dalton, Bryan Bauer, Dave Harris, Dean Linnard, Dominique Fawn Hill, John C. Moore, Justin Ellington, Mark J. Franklin, Mikhail Fiksel, Playwrights Horizons, Stephanie Osin Cohen, Taylor Reynolds, Tyler Fauntleroy, W. Tré Davis

In “Tambo & Bones,” currently running at Playwrights Horizons, playwright Dave Harris (“Summertime,” “Patricide”) gives the audience a minstrel show with three variety acts whose timeframes span more than two centuries. Endmen Tambo (W. Tré Davis) and Bones (Tyler Fauntleroy) appear as humans in olios one and two performing for white audiences, and they appear as robots, themselves, and their…

Off-Broadway Review: “Seared” in the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space

Successful entrepreneurs like Harry (an overzealous but hypersensitive Raúl Esparza) typically attempt to guard their “art” from “commerce” for as long as possible. They feel frightened by the prospect of commercial success overwhelming their sense of artistic integrity. At least that is Harry’s point of view in Theresa Rebeck’s “Seared” currently running in the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at…