“Ms. Drury’s dazzling play appears at first to be a family comedy, but subverts expectations with a head-spinning shift in content and form that forces theatergoers to think in new ways about race and the white gaze. Ms. Drury, 37,…
“One of the most startlingly original voices belongs to this year’s Pulitzer winner Jackie Sibblies Drury, who has had a breakthrough season with two critically acclaimed plays on the New York stage—most recently, at Lincoln Center Theater, the exhilarating Marys…
“Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy O. Harris, Antoinette Nwandu and Jordan E. Cooper, on influences, gatekeepers and helping “the young black theater nerd find work that looks like them.” READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.
“It’s a relief that this athletic and fluent production of Shakespeare’s perpetually relevant assassination parable, directed by Shana Cooper for Theatre for a New Audience, never draws direct lines, even winkingly, to current politics, instead allowing the audience the satisfaction…
“I think the stakes are more critical in the year leading up to the 2020 election,” she says. “We are on the precipice of making these fundamental choices about who will run our country and how we will govern. I…
Congrats to Jackie Sibblies Drury on winning the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Fairview! This prize recognizes women from around the world who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. The judges for the 2019 prize…
“Fairview” begins as an easygoing comedy about a middle-class black family gathering for a birthday dinner and ends somewhere else entirely. A play about race, though not only about race, it includes a series of gestures and invitations that divide…
“Rare and intimidating, unresolved and raw…It left me with the blood pounding in my ears.” – Sara Holdren, New York Magazine Critic’s Pick Read the full review from New York Magazine here.
“An extension is in order, for it is difficult to imagine a more ardent love letter than the one Calvin Trillin has composed to his late wife, Alice. A slightly longer run would do all of us a world of…
“Deeply affecting.” “[Carrie] Paff is so irresistible that not falling in love with her doesn’t seem an option. Bean is equally terrific, delivering Trillin’s droll one-liners in perfect deadpan fashion and allowing just enough emotion to seep into his controlled…