Daniel Swee

Broadway Review: “Pass Over” at the August Wilson Theatre (Closed Sunday October 10, 2021)

September 16, 2021 | Broadway, pass over, transl, trapped > | "Pass Over", "Waiting for Godot", Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, August Wilson Theatre, Camille Hickman, Daniel Swee, Danya Taymor, Erica A. Hart, Gabriel Ebert, Joan Marcus, Jon Michael Hill, Justin Ellington, Marcus Doshi, Namir Smallwood, Samuel Beckett, Sarafina Bush, Wilson Chin

In Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s most recent iteration of “Pass Over,” two “brothers” Moses (Jon Michael Hill) and Kitch (Namir Smallwood) engage in an interminable exchange of escapist fantasy-dialogue in which they ask one another, “What kind of plans you got?” Moses’ His Promised Land Top 10 list includes “reaching his full potential,” “getting his ass off this block,” “a penthouse…

Broadway Review: “The Great Society” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

“The Great Society,” the second installment of playwright Robert Schenkkan’s biographical account of the years Lyndon B. Johnson spent as president in the White House, is less a drama and more a chronological list of the destructive events the plagued his second term in office. To the playwright’s credit, it is extensively detailed and factual; however, to his discredit, it…