About: Angela Renzi

Congratulations to Misha Chowdhury on being named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama for Public Obscenities, written and directed by Mr. Chowdhury. The Pulitzer committee described the play as “a densely written, deeply-felt drama that examines identity, home, queerness, and language through the lens of a Bengali American reuniting with his family in India.”…Read More »

“Nicole Cooper…is terrific: her Lady Macbeth is funny, sensual, proud and smart and Emmanuella Cole is great as a shrewd Lady Macduff. Their performances make the case that the Macbeth women have been seriously short-changed.” Read more from The Financial Times here. Macbeth (an undoing) begins performances on April 5. Click here to learn more.

“Note the subtitle of this London import, an adaptation by Zinnie Harris. Shakespeare’s familiar lines for the ‘Scottish Play’ alternate with Harris’s contemporary dialogue, giving a feminist spin to the witchy tragedy of ambition, loyalty, and conscience from the POV of Lady M (Nicole Cooper).” Read more from Observer here. Macbeth (an undoing) begins performances on April…Read More »

“We’re lucky that Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s intricate bilingual drama is returning in 2024 for an encore run, at Theatre for a New Audience.” Read more from The New Yorker here.  Public Obscenities plays January 17- February 18. Click here to learn more and buy tickets. 

“After an acclaimed run at Soho Rep last spring, Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s play is back for a longer stint in Brooklyn. Told in English and Bangla, with supertitles about the stage, the play depicts a Bengali American Ph.D. student and his American boyfriend’s trip back to Kolkata, where they research the local queer history and…Read More »