Lucy Thurber Exposes Elite College’s Idea of “Inclusion” by Jennifer Ann Charron “Transfers” by Lucy Thurber plunges us into the world of college admissions where an ‘elite’ private school struggles to include students from the inner city. At the frontline of the equality wars, funny and flawed educators decide who gets in and who…
Patrick Marber Exposes Tyranny of the One Percent by Jennifer Ann Charron “After Miss Julie” explores the clash of class and sex in a bedlam of emotions in 90 swift minutes. Patrick Marber’s redo of August Strindberg’s tragedy “Miss Julie” moves from 1888 Sweden to 1945 England, on the night of the Socialist Labour…
World Class Musical Shows Black & Irish Lives Matter by Jennifer Ann Charron It’s rare to witness a momentous new musical. My shoulders clench and my jaw drops, like a dumb-struck child. That’s me watching “Paradise Square: A New Musical” that tells the history of Black and Irish people living together in Manhattan—just before…
Gale Childs Daly Delivers Hope of Resurrection from Chaos by Jennifer Ann Charron Most of us are familiar with Great Expectations─Charles Dickens’ Victorian novel about a boy who sells his soul to move up the social ladder. Gale Child Daly’s adaptation suffers, like Pip, the hero, from an off-kilter GPS and chaotic staging. Great…