Weyni Mengesha

Off-Broadway Review: “Kim’s Convenience” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre

July 6, 2017 | canada, Off-Broadway, pershing square, soul pepper > | Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, Cylla von Tiedemann, Ins Choi, Jean Yoon, Kim's Convenience, Lorenzo Savoini, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Pershing Square Signature Center, Robert Harding, Rosie Simon, Soulpepper on 42nd, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Thomas Ryder Payne, Weyni Mengesha

In a transformative eighty-five minutes, Appa (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) identifies “his story” in two very different ways. These diverse – and seemingly mutually exclusive stories – are the grit of Ins Choi’s “Kim’s Convenience,” currently running at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre as part of the Soulpepper on 42nd Street Festival. Appa has built a…

Off-Broadway Review: “Seven Spots on the Sun” Grapples with Conscience at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

The brutality of war – any war – leaves its mark on the communities war leaves behind: on the land and on the people who inhabit the land. The soldiers in the fictional South American country featured in Martin Zimmerman’s “Seven Spots on the Sun,” currently playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, leave a palm-print on a wooden plank before they…