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Drama League Nominations Consider AN OCTOROON, TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, and John Douglas Thompson
April 29th, 2015
The Drama League 2015 Award Nominations were announced on Tuesday, April 21st. Among those considered are our productions of Tamburlaine the Great for Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play, and Soho Reps’s An Octoroon for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play. John Douglas Thompson will also be considered for the Distinguished Performance Award.…Read More »
The New Yorker on Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON and “Reading Racist Literature”
April 15th, 2015
The New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman examines how we interact with the historical texts with uneasy themes, focusing on the dialogue between Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s AN OCTOROON and Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON. Read the full article here.
A review of Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON by Time Out New York
March 10th, 2015
Read a review of TFANA’s production of Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON in this recent Time Out post by Helen Shaw.
New York Post‘s 4-STAR review of Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON
March 10th, 2015
“Directed with brilliance and ingenuity by Sarah Benson…”. Read the full review here.
Variety reviews Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON
March 10th, 2015
“Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ subversively funny alternative version of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama about forbidden love in the Antebellum South…”, read the full review here.
Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON is a New York Times Critic’s Pick!
February 27th, 2015
Ben Brantley has named Soho Rep.’s An Octoroon as a New York Times Critic’s Pick, and says it is “hilarious and harrowing…May turn out to be this decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today.” Click here to read the review.
The Leonard Lopate Show interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and actors of Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON
February 25th, 2015
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the actors of Soho Rep,’s AN OCTOROON, Austin Smith and Haynes Thigpen, appeared on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show on February 24, to discuss the new production. Listen to the interview here:
NPR on SOHO REP.’S AN OCTOROON
February 18th, 2015
NPR’s Jeff Lunden takes an in-depth look at our production of Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON. Hear interviews with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, director Sarah Benson, and chief New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley, plus excerpts from rehearsal.
Full Casting for Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON Announced
January 13th, 2015
We are thrilled to announce full casting for our upcoming production of Soho Rep.’s An Octoroon, which begins performances February 14. Click here to read the casting announcement on Playbill.com.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Stephen Greenblatt Shares His Thoughts on TAMBURLAINE
December 23rd, 2014
Scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt, after seeing a recent performance of Tamburlaine the Great, shared his thoughts on Christopher Marlowe and this two-part theatrical epic. Below is his letter: “On May 30, 1593, the playwright Christopher Marlowe, aged 29, was stabbed to death in a tavern near London. The precipitating cause, according to…Read More »