The Harlem hair salon at the center of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” Jocelyn Bioh’s exuberant workplace comedy, is bursting with gossip, petty fights, audacious fashion, dazzling hair styles, full-body dancing ...
The theater held a palpable charge the night “Anemone” premiered late last month at the New York Film Festival. When the credits ended, the audience sat seemingly in stunned silence. ...
A hair braiding shop is more than a salon, it’s a community center. As a Black woman, sometimes you see the person who braids your hair more than you see ...
Talk about playing the long game! The cult musical “Chess” — which had only 68 regular performances on Broadway before closing in 1988 but spawned a hit soundtrack by two ...
‘The Night of the Iguana’ The prospect of a revival of “The Night of the Iguana,” a Tennessee Williams play rarely revived anymore, seemed like a luxury I wasn’t sure ...
Magnificent. The concert version of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s celebrated production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish had its West Coast premiere at the Soraya last weekend, and ...
In “Am I Roxie?,” a world premiere one-woman-show at the Geffen Playhouse, Roxana Ortega, a working actress and alum of the Groundlings Theatre’s Sunday Company, revisits the period in her ...
Kenneth Branagh is a master of the Shakespearean stage but things haven’t always gone swimmingly for the Oscar-winning star of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) upcoming version of The Tempest. ...
The festivities begin even before the characters of “One Man, Two Guvnors” enter the stage. A skiffle band (complete with washboard player) performs a pre-show set to rev up the ...
Two days before a shooter armed with an AR-15-style rifle killed an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, and injured 21 others in a mass shooting at the Church of the Annunciation ...
