Millennial Notes Lloyd Suh Lays Bare American Cruelties to Immigrants by Jordan Freed By the end of “The Chinese Lady,” Afong Moy (stunning Rinabeth Apostol) has all but abandoned her optimistic belief that she is on a mission of “goodwill” to the West. Even though she makes lists of racist killings and laws targeting…
Millennial Notes Eugene O’Neill Prophesies Our Modern Opioid Crisis by Jordan Freed A terrific cellist, Alexander Kort, provides a backdrop of dark, ominous notes. Offstage, father, son, and mother perform unsettling choreography, banging against walls, and crawling up a set of stairs that lead nowhere. Director Michael Socrates Moran injects a hazy, dreamlike quality into…
Millennial Notes Alex Timbers & Michael Friedman Bring Punk to Politics by Jordan Freed It’s amazing how good Punk Rock looks in 19th Century U.S.! As Andrew Jackson (ferocious James Grady) rises from frontiersman, to general, to governor, and eventually president, we see his journey from unruly upstart to anxiety-ridden leader. We find out…
Millennial Notes Caryl Churchill & Tamilla Woodard Transport Thatcher to Today by Jordan Freed “She’s not going to make it.” A hard realization for a devoted “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” conservative Thatcherite. Fast forward to 2019, where the working class is still under attack. By the end of “Top Girls” (1982), Caryl…