Articles Tagged With: Renea S. Brown

Sojourners at Round House Theatre

Reviews September 18, 2024 Steven Kirkpatrick

author: Steven Kirkpatrick

For an immigration story with a refreshing change of focus, you would do well to catch the Round House production of Mfoniso Udofia’s Sojourners, which kicks off their 2024-2025 season. It is also the first of a projected nine-part cycle about a family of Nigerians in the United States. Running through October 6th, “Sojourners” centers on a heroine who leaves a relatively privileged life in Nigeria in the late 1970s to study biology at Texas Southern University.

The cast of Second City's Love, Factually

Love, Factually at The Kennedy Center

Reviews December 12, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

If you look for it, love actually is all around you.
Unless you’re bitter-pill Cassie, whose got an icepick up her hoo-hah over
love, romance, and happy endings. As the zany and quirky title might imply,
Second City’s Love, Factually, is bringing you the jaded and hardened
look at the warm-n-fuzzy feel goods of the holidays this December at The John
F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Appearing through December 29 in the
Theatre Lab,

Coriolanus at Brave Spirits Theatre

Reviews February 13, 2018 Joshua Engel

For a world turned upside down as 2018, Director Charlene V. Smith has crafted a riveting, provocative, explosive Coriolanus. “Are we even capable of not harming ourselves?” she asks in the director’s notes, echoing Tori Boutin as citizen of Rome: “We willingly consented to his banishment, yet it was against our will.”

Smith’s Rome is not a pinnacle of civilization. It’s violent and dirty, its citizens easily provoked to engage every whim.

The Trojan Women Project at Brave Spirits Theatre

Reviews February 7, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

The natural orders are ours to make. Gender is a sphere. Women are women regardless of what kind of women they are. Does it make you a bad feminist or a bad woman if your version of feminism and supporting women is not the same as someone from a different generation, from a different race, from a different background, from a different socio-economic standpoint? The Trojan Women Project, devised by Rachel Hynes and the ensemble,