Tricia Baron| See Patina Miller, Denée Benton, Jasmine Amy Rogers, and more of the cast of Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy on opening night. ||Broadway|Denée Benton,Heather Alicia Simms,Jasmine Am…
Class is still in session! School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, will extend its Broadway run by two weeks, through November…
Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that its Broadway premiere of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, written by Tony Award nominee Jocelyn Bioh, and directed by two-time Tony Aw…
The Broadway version of the off-Broadway hits stars Tony nominees Denée Benton and Jasmine Amy Rogers.
By Alix Cohen... A skillful balance of humor with issues. The piece has a big heart and effervescent buoyancy, but its message is clear.
Becoming Miss Ghana 1986 would mean fame, fortune, and prosperity. At least, that’s what Paulina—the queen bee of Aburi Girls Boarding School—believes. When the pageant recruiter comes…
Ericka’s arrival sets off a chaotic chain of events by turns uproariously funny, stingingly painful and, for anyone who lived through teenage bullying, cruelly familiar. Yet Bioh always ke…
Benton and Rogers—each a radiant presence with resting Disney Princess Face—are perfectly matched rivals. As Paulina, Benton is unflinchingly cruel. She even draws gasps for her especial…
When it premiered at MCC in 2017 it was fresh, savvy, and funny. Almost a decade later in its Broadway debut, it’s lost none of that, and White’s production — perhaps inevitably given …
Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play opened on Broadway September 28 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Whitney White, the p…
Almost a decade after we first met the students at the Aburi Girls Boarding School in Jocelyn Bioh’s breakthrough comedy, Paulina, now portrayed by Denée Benton, is as mean as ever, the m…
★★★★☆ Whitney White directs a first-rate cast in Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy The post School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play: Jasmine Amy Rogers and Denée Benton Battle It Out …
Nearly a decade after it was first staged, Jocelyn Bioh’s study of girlhood in 1980s Ghana is better than ever in irresistible new production After its 2017 premiere off-Broadway, School G…
Theatrely's Broadway review of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White at the Friedman Theatre, part of Manhattan Theatre Club's season in…
The Jocelyn Bioh play makes its Main Stem debut via Manhattan Theatre Club.
The battle lines are drawn early and definitively in Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. The cruelties come fast and cut deep in this Ghana school lunch room wher…
Late girlhood has a sacredness that can’t be replicated. It’s a particular time in life between innocence and adulting, allowing young women to swing between the two. Jocelyn Bioh’s se…
While 'School Girls' sprays a thin mist of social commentary over its familiar story, it truly shines in the comedic set pieces.
Hayley Levitt| Denée Benton and Jasmine Amy Rogers are rivals in Jocelyn Bioh’s Ghanaian high school comedy at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. ||Broadway|Erin Morton,Jasmine Amy Rogers,Jo…
★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers, Denée Benton, and Patina Miller are among the stars of this Broadway production of Jocelyn Bioh's acclaimed comedy The post School Girls; Or, The Africa…
BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP Jocelyn Bioh gives the familiar mean-girl story a funny, painful twist in a terrific Broadway production The “mean girls” trope, that group of popular girls usua…
Class is in session! Jasmine Amy Rogers, Denée Benton, Patina Miller and the cast of SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY celebrate opening night on Broadway. Head over to Broadwa…
Attention, students! Jocelyn Bioh’s biting comedy School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is now on Broadway. Set in 1986, School Girls stars Denée Benton as Paulina, the reigning …
Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Whitney White, is getting ready to open on Broadway! Ahead on opening night, September 2…