So I experienced Slave Play at the John Golden Theatre yesterday, and I’m still processing. But given that it took me forever to process Fairview, I have decided to just get my thoughts out there and not add to my “to blog” backlog. Where to start? Basics! Slave Play, which opened on Broadway in September […]
NYC Day Trip for Hot Chocolate
I was randomly speaking to colleagues last year when I revealed that I travel to New York City from Washington D.C. to get hot chocolate. It sounded odd to them but it’s true. I book a round trip ticket by train or by bus for the main purpose of delighting in hot chocolate from L.A. […]
The White Gaze in Fairview
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview came to the Wooly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington D.C. Having enjoyed the last play I watched there I was eager to attend. Fairview is a play centered on a “regular” middle-class black family preparing to celebrate Grandma’s birthday at home. The mother is frazzled wanting everything to […]
Familiar by Danai Gurira
For my birthday this year, a friend got me tickets to see Familiar, a play by Danai Gurira, author of Eclipse on Broadway, Michonne on The Walking Dead, and more recently the Dora Milaje General Okoye in Black Panther. It was excellent. We are transported to Minnesota, to the living room of a Zimbabwean-American family […]
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
Christmas weekend saw me in Greenwich Village for “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play”, an off-Broadway show. It was well worth the bus trip from Washington D.C. We are transported to 1986 to Aburi Girls Boarding School in Ghana where we meet six senior class-girls competing for the crown of Miss Ghana 1986. […]
Copenhagen: A Play
Copenhagen is a play by Michael Faryn based upon a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941. Why the German Heisenberg travelled to Copenhagen and what he said to the half-Jewish Danish Bohr, is the central theme of this play, as the old friends subsequently find themselves on opposite ends of […]
Eclipsed – The Stories of African Women on Broadway
It was cold, miserable, and rainy this past Saturday but that did not deter my sisters, a couple friends and myself from lining up to watch Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. It’s a play which in short tells the story of women having to make difficult choices for survival […]
Thoughts about The Lion King through Adult Eyes
Not too long ago, my French speaking fourteen year old cousin from Marseille came to the United States to visit the family. It was the first time that she and her aunt, my mother, had met. I don’t know how they communicated as my mother doesn’t speak French and she doesn’t speak English nor Nzema. […]
Milos & Phantom of the Opera – Las Vegas Style
Flowers make up this painting, Bellagio The only plan for Thursday was the 7 pm The Phantom of the Opera show at The Venetian thereby allowing my mother to decide what she wanted to do until then. Having enjoyed her restaurant experience the night before, she wanted to have a formal lunch. Having picked out […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.