Pernell Walker

Off-Broadway Review: “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” at Atlantic Theatre Company’s Linda Gross Theatre

The epic new work penned by Stephen Adly Guirgis entitled “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” refers to the vast array of residents in a transitional shelter for women on the upper Westside of Manhattan. It is a motley group of misfits of every age, race, size, color and sexual status that seem to have a firm grip on the…

Off-Broadway Review: “Dolphins and Sharks” at Labyrinth Theater Company at Bank Street Theater

March 16, 2017 | dolphins and sharks, Off-Broadway, sense and, slave play, the field > | Bank Street Theatre, Cesar J. Rosado, Charlotte Brathwaite, Chinaza Uche, Dolphins and Sharks, Flor De Liz Perez, James Anthony Tyler, Labyrinth Theatre, Marsha Ginsberg, Pernell Walker

When recently entering the Bank Street Theater for the production of “Dolphins and Sharks,” the new play by James Anthony Tyler produced by Labyrinth Theater Company, I felt as though I was at a theatrical site-specific location. This is all due to the remarkable use of the small space, impressive attention to detail and encompassing the up close audience with…