HALFWAY BITCHES GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN Queen Sugar Atlantic Theater Company / John Ortiz
JAZZ Malvonne Baltimore Center Stage Kwame kwei-Armah
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MILLER, MISSISSIPPI Doris Stevenson/Ruby The Long Wharf/ Lee Sunday Evans
BARBECUE Black Adlean The Public Theater / Kent Gash
BOOTY CANDY Actor 3 Playwright's Horizon / Robert O'Hara
UNSPEAKABLE Mama The Apollo Theater / Rod GailsOB
BOOTY CANDY Actor 3 The Wilma Theatre / Robert O’Hara
PEARL’S GONE BLUE Maybel Jackson Fringe Festival Winner / Julie Kramer
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INTIMATE APPAREL Mayme Stamford Theatre Works / Patricia Floyd
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STEAL AWAY Blu Daniels Billie Holiday Theatre / Marjorie Moon
THE BOW WOW CLUB Diane Bright The WorkShop / Keith Greer
AMERICAN MENU Johnny Mae New Federal Theatre / A. Washington
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GOD,THE CRACK HOUSE, Sandra Dawson Circle Rep. / MaryBeth Easley
AND THE DEVIL
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Barbecue
Under the pungent direction of Kent Gash, all the actors — including Heather Alicia Simms as the other Marie, Marc Damon Johnson as the other James T., and Benja Kay Thomas as the other Adlean — dig into the rowdy cantankerousness of their characters, drawing out all the tangy humor in Mr. O’Hara’s writing.
*New York Times Review
Booty Candy
Four other terrific actors — Jessica Frances Dukes, Benja Kay Thomas, Lance Coadie Williams and Jesse Pennington — each play several roles, many outrageously comic.
Another scene, as discomfiting as it is undeniably funny, depicts four women (played with tangy exuberance by Ms. Dukes and Ms. Thomas) discussing the preposterous name that one has chosen to give her new daughter: Genitalia. (Actually, the full name is Genitalia Lakeitha Shamala Abdul.) Later, in another uproarious and borderline tasteless scene, we see the grown Genitalia, now a mannish lesbian portrayed by Ms. Thomas, and her girlfriend, Intifada, played by Ms. Dukes, participating in a “noncommitment” ceremony in which they excoriate each other calmly but viciously.
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*New York Times Review
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