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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

McCarter Theatre Center and Berkeley Repertory Theatre present Eisa Davis’s Bulrusher by Jeannine A. Cook

A new production of Eisa Davis’s Bulrusher at McCarter Theatre Center delivers on the playwright’s vision: welcoming, submerging, and transforming us. Jeannine Cook reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:10AM
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

McCarter Theatre presents Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky by Jeannine A. Cook

Josephine Baker presides in spirit over McCarter’s new production of Blues for an Alabama Sky, in which friends in a 1930s Harlem tenement ask what we gain and lose when we stay or leave. …

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:03PM
Monday, April 3, 2023

Arden Theatre Company presents August Wilson’s Radio Golf by Jeannine A. Cook

This new production of August Wilson’s Radio Golf, the final work of an epic 10-play opus spanning 100 years, is perfectly positioned in the Philly season, as we face the primary elections…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:51PM
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Theatre in the X and EgoPo Classic Theater present Langston Hughes’s The Ways of White Folks by Jeannine A. Cook

Theatre in the X and EgoPo's immersive adaptation of The Ways of White Folks, a classic Langston Hughes story collection, deserves the buzz it’s been getting at Glen Foerd mansion. Jeannin…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:54PM
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

InterAct Theatre Company presents Will Snider’s Death of a Driver by Jeannine A. Cook

Death of a Driver, now onstage at InterAct, speaks eloquently to our shared global reality in its story about a Kenyan taxi driver and a white American engineer. Jeannine Cook reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:13PM
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Delaware Theatre Company presents Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee by Jeannine A. Cook

Delaware Theatre Company mounts writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee, a show about the men who trained to become the US Air Force’s first Black pilots. Jeannine Cook r…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:03PM
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Philly Fringe 2022: Philadelphia Artists Collective and theBlackBestFriend present Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness by Jeannine A. Cook

Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness, a play about the realities and illusions of race, class, and gender, is onstage in North Philly for this year’s Fringe. Jeannine A. Cook reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:25PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards