Millennial Notes Lisa B. Thompson: New Stories for Black Women by Jordan Freed “Single Black Female” is at its strongest and funniest when the two actors, Tanika Baptiste and Paige Mayes, let loose and play off each other. The two women bring the house down, laughing as they dance wildly to passionate gospel music….
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 Del Shores Fashions Fabulous Fantasies of Mom & Singing Sisters by Evelyn Arevalo Domineering mother Ditty Blaylock (vibrant Christine Macomber) has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime. She will be honored on television for 50 years of Gospel song writing. There’s just one catch, her three daughters–The Blaylock Sisters–must reunite in…
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…