“The overdue resurrection of Alice Childress continues with this first New York production in half a century of ‘Wedding Band,’ her richly resonant story of an interracial couple set in 1918 South Carolina…It is hard to imagine a more beautifully…
“A breathtakingly powerful production…By turns hilarious and gut-wrenching, this production of Wedding Band needs to be seen.” Read more from TheaterMania here.
“Alice Childress was a force to be reckoned with in the theater, even if she didn’t always get her due. After all, she would have been the first Black female playwright on Broadway if she hadn’t refused to compromise on…
“The great playwright Alice Childress had been largely sidelined by history, but now revivals have begun to grapple with her legacy in earnest. Her backstage comic drama Trouble in Mind finally made it to Broadway in the fall, and now another of…
“John Douglas Thompson offers a RIVETING portrayal of Shylock…in a moving performance bristling with righteous indignation…Director Arin Arbus lets us see all the ugliest implications of The Merchant of Venice in the fascinating production she has staged.” –The Washington Post Read more…
“Simon Godwin, the director of Washington’s Shakespeare Theater, was interviewing John Douglas Thompson, who is starring as Shylock in director Arin Arbus’s dazzling new production of ‘Merchant of Venice.’ Godwin asked Thompson — a renowned Shakespearean actor who has appeared…
★★★★ “New York stages have hosted many estimable Shylocks, but I doubt that any of them has evoked slavery with greater resonance than JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON…Formidable and vulnerable…Fire in his performance and haunted…A Penetrating New Production…Director ARIN ARBUS gives this…
“Artistically in Sync, and Reunited for ‘The Merchant of Venice’ Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play at Theatre for a New Audience.” Read more from The New York Times here.
“In ARIN ARBUS’s provocative production…JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON as Shylock, an outstanding classical actor, [is] perhaps the greatest Shakespeare interpreter in contemporary America…A virtuoso of psychological insight and emotion…he takes what’s timeless and transmutes it to the present.” Read more from…
“A Vital and Invigorating Revival” Read more from TheaterMania here.