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“An elegant production…a masterpiece…Alice Childress cuts deep with Wedding Band, exposing anti-Blackness down at the American bone.” Read more from New York Magazine here. Wedding Band is now playing through May 15. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

“The playwright Alice Childress, who lived from 1916 to 1994, never saw her work produced on Broadway. Unlike some of her Black contemporaries—Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson—she wasn’t canonized or widely taught. In her later years, “she felt like she had been forgotten,” the dramaturge Arminda Thomas said the other day. Lately, though, Childress has been…Read More »

“Awoye Timpo directs this superb production of Wedding Band …A Cinemascope production for this simultaneously intimate and sprawling story. Jason Ardizzone-West’s set uses every inch of the theater and even a few we didn’t know about until he and Timpo reveal them to us in a thrilling conclusion. Read more from The Wrap <https://www.thewrap.com/wedding-band-off-broadway-review-the-theater-rediscovers-alice-childress/”>here. Wedding Band is…Read More »

“Good taste deserves to sell. For a prime example: this powerful revival of Alice Childress’ Wedding Band.” Read more from New York Stage Review <http://nystagereview.com/2022/05/08/wedding-band-alice-childress-play-on-racist-themes-breathtakingly-revived/”>here. Wedding Band is now playing through May 15. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

“The overdue resurrection of Alice Childress continues with this first New York production in half a century of ‘Wedding Band,’ her richly resonant story of an interracial couple set in 1918 South Carolina…It is hard to imagine a more beautifully rendered, exquisitely acted version of this rarely seen drama.” Read more from New York Theater <https://newyorktheater.me/2022/05/08/wedding-band-review-alice-childress-love-hate-story-in-black-and-white/”>here.…Read More »

“A breathtakingly powerful production…By turns hilarious and gut-wrenching, this production of Wedding Band needs to be seen.” Read more from TheaterMania here. Wedding Band is now playing through May 15. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.

★★★★ “New York stages have hosted many estimable Shylocks, but I doubt that any of them has evoked slavery with greater resonance than JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON…Formidable and vulnerable…Fire in his performance and haunted…A Penetrating New Production…Director ARIN ARBUS gives this Merchant a contemporary vibe…an ethnically diverse cast explores the still-debated presence and purpose of the…Read More »

“Artistically in Sync, and Reunited for ‘The Merchant of Venice’ Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play at Theatre for a New Audience.” Read more from The New York Times here. The Merchant of Venice is now playing through March 6. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.    …Read More »

“In ARIN ARBUS’s provocative production…JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON as Shylock, an outstanding classical actor, [is] perhaps the greatest Shakespeare interpreter in contemporary America…A virtuoso of psychological insight and emotion…he takes what’s timeless and transmutes it to the present.” Read more from The New York Times here. The Merchant of Venice is now playing through March 6. Click here…Read More »

“A Vital and Invigorating Revival” Read more from TheaterMania here. The Merchant of Venice is now playing through March 6. Click here to learn more and buy tickets.