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Joey Sims

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Critic’s Notebook: INDIAN PRINCESSES + GIRL, INTERRUPTED

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By Joey Sims
| Theatrely
Senior Critic Joey Sims has been busy around town catching the latest of what Off-Broadway has to offer. His thoughts below: INDIAN PRINCESSES In a forthright letter slipped inside the playbill for Indian Princesses, playwright Eliana Theologides Rodriguez acknowledges the harmful and offensive origins of her new play’s title—while also contextualizing that title within her own history with the unfortunate YMCA program.
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JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE Still Packs A Punch — Review

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By Joey Sims
| Theatrely
Is August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone a hangout play? In its conception, perhaps not. Written in 1984 as the second installment in Wilson’s celebrated “Pittsburgh Cycle,” Joe Turner delicately unfolds the backstories of several troubled residents at a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911. Contemplative in tone, it is certainly one of Wilson’s quieter works. Yet the play probably shouldn’t feel like an extended chill-out session, as it frequently does in Debbie Allen’s new Broadway staging.
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David Lindsay-Abaire Is Back On Broadway With THE BALUSTERS — Review

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By Joey Sims
| Theatrely
They say woke is dead. David Lindsay-Abaire has other ideas. Lindsay-Abaire’s new play The Balusters makes a highly entertaining if specious argument for the eventual triumph—bad-faith cultural backlash be damned—of social justice in left-leaning America. Solidly staged by director Kenny Leon, this world premiere from Manhattan Theatre Club is witty and always engaging, though its ham-fistedness might leave you longing for the nuance of Lindsay-Abaire’s past triumphs.
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