The title of Nia Akilah Robinson’s 2024 play, “The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)” distills its theme: ...
Led by Black playwrights and directors, the American theater has in recent years tried to spotlight some of the less well-known chapters in the nation’s grim history of racism. Nia Akilah Robinson’s ...
Much of the play is serious in nature, but just like that heavenly apparition, funny moments sporadically occur. Not all of the elements and themes of The Great Privation meld, nor does the patchy ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Nia Akilah Robinson’s new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice. By Laura Collins-Hughes In the middle of the night ...
A grave — the ultimate cooped-up location — may be a key setting for “The Great Privation (How to Flip Ten Cents Into a Dollar),” but there’s an inspired expansiveness to this time-traveling new drama ...
Sometimes, humor can act as a salve to cope with and heal from harm. Playwright Nia Akilah Robinson banks on it in “The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)” (though Jan. 31). The ...
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition. Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its ...
1832: a mother and daughter stand vigil behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the grave of a recently deceased loved one. Today, on the same grounds: another mother and daughter (alike ...
A grave — the ultimate cooped-up location — may be a key setting for “The Great Privation (How to Flip Ten Cents Into a Dollar),” but there’s an inspired expansiveness to this time-traveling new drama ...