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In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

Emily Wilson - March 11, 2020

When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away. “First...

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Review: A fiery intellect bound by exoticism in ‘The Chinese Lady’

Elaine Elinson - October 23, 2019

Even as the audience files in, we are already part of the play, or rather, the exhibition. Atung (Will Dao) sits in front of...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

Marke B. - September 17, 2019

MUCH ADO ABOUT FOLSOM Folsom Street Fair is two Sundays away (watch for my party guide), and what better way could organizers seize the news...

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In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Emily Wilson - June 18, 2019

ONSTAGE Waiting after school for his mother to pick him up after a high school French club meeting, Rotimi Agbabiaka—whose new show Manifesto plays at...

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Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

Elaine Elinson - June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Ten years after Oedipus El Rey premiered at the Magic Theatre, Luis Alfaro’s drama is being staged there as a legacy revival, again directed by...

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‘Oedipus’ incarcerated: Esteban Carmona plays imprisoned tragic hero

Emily Wilson - June 6, 2019

ONSTAGE When you watch the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, you know how it’s gong to end. Oedipus, suffering from hubris, will kill his father and...

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Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Emily Wilson - March 15, 2019

ONSTAGE While writing the nine plays of the Ufot Family Cycle, which follows several generations of a family of Nigerians in America, Mfoniso Udofia...

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Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

Elaine Elinson - March 7, 2019

ONSTAGE A young woman frantically shouts into a graffiti-scrawled pay phone in a shabby airline terminal. She clutches a green handbag and tries to keep...

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A timely, unrelenting family drama unfolds at Magic Theatre

Elaine Elinson - October 25, 2018

ONSTAGE When Annie (Martha Brigham) opens the front door of her family home at the beginning of Magic Theatre's "The Resting Place" (through November 4),...

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Pucks to plays: Former hockey pro brings drama to Magic Theatre

Emily Wilson - October 14, 2018

ONSTAGE Ashlin Halfnight sees a lot of parallels between his former career as a professional hockey player and his current one as a playwright. “It seems...

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In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

Review: A fiery intellect bound by exoticism in ‘The Chinese Lady’

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

‘Oedipus’ incarcerated: Esteban Carmona plays imprisoned tragic hero

Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

A timely, unrelenting family drama unfolds at Magic Theatre

Pucks to plays: Former hockey pro brings drama to Magic Theatre

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