7 stories by "Jeannine A. Cook"
A new production of Eisa Davis's Bulrusher at McCarter Theatre Center delivers on the playwright's vision: welcoming, submerging, and transforming us. Jeannine Cook reviews.
Josephine Baker presides in spirit over McCarter's new production of Blues for an Alabama Sky, in which friends in a 1930s Harlem tenement ask what we gain and lose when we stay or leave. Je…
This new production of August Wilson's Radio Golf, the final work of an epic 10-play opus spanning 100 years, is perfectly positioned in the Philly season, as we face the primary elections f…
Theatre in the X and EgoPo's immersive adaptation of The Ways of White Folks, a classic Langston Hughes story collection, deserves the buzz it's been getting at Glen Foerd mansion. Jeannine …
Death of a Driver, now onstage at InterAct, speaks eloquently to our shared global reality in its story about a Kenyan taxi driver and a white American engineer. Jeannine Cook reviews.
Delaware Theatre Company mounts writer/director Layon Gray's Black Angels Over Tuskegee, a show about the men who trained to become the US Air Force's first Black pilots. Jeannine Cook revie…
Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness, a play about the realities and illusions of race, class, and gender, is onstage in North Philly for this year's Fringe. Jeannine A. Cook reviews.