When Playwrights Complicate Dramatic Form: Recent Developments in African American Plays of the 2010s
African American drama, theater and performance has a rich and complex history. Only recently,...
Read MorePosted by Jade Thomas | 12th Sep 2022 | Belgium, Essay, Playwriting, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
African American drama, theater and performance has a rich and complex history. Only recently,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Aug 2019 | Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is one of America’s finest. In London, we are now catching up...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 10th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
The Octoroon is a 19th-century melodrama by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault that tells the story...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th May 2017 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America
This is phenomenal. And pretty wild. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon at the Orange Tree...
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