Whitney White

Off-Broadway Review: “Liberation” Misses the Mark at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Through Sunday, March 30, 2025)

There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. There is gratuitous and unnecessary nudity on stage that requires patrons to relinquish their phones before entering the theater. That nudity is completely unnecessary: the questions raised about the characters’…

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Broadway Review: “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 19, 2023)

October 12, 2023 | Broadway, the ally > | “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”, & Erica Hart (Casting), Brittany Adebumola (Miriam), Caparelliotis Casting, David Zinn (Scenic Design), Dawn-Elin Fraser (Dialect & Vocal Coach), Dede Ayite (Costume Design), Dominique Thorne (Marie), Jiyoun Chang (Lighting Design), Jocelyn Bioh, Joseph Verlezza, Justin Ellington (Original Music & Sound Design), Kalyne Coleman (Chrissy/Michelle/Laniece), Kelly Gillespie, Lakisha May (Vanessa/Radia/Sheila), Maechi Aharanwa (Ndidi), Matthew Murphy, Melanie J. Lisby (Production Stage Manager), Michael Oloyede (James/Sock Man/DVD Man/Jewelry Man), Nana Mensah (Aminata), Nikiya Mathis (Hair & Wig Design), Rachel Christopher (Jennifer), Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Somi Kakoma (Jaja), Stefania Bulbarella (Video Design), Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Whitney White, Zenzi Williams (Sista Bea)

Manhattan Theatre Club is presenting a new Broadway production entitled “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” penned by Jocelyn Bioh at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Ms. Bioh has set her dramedy inside a hair braiding shop located in Harlem, during one entire day, and has filled the establishment with an array of colorful and outlandish employees and clientele. The occasional street…

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Off-Broadway Review: WP Theater/Second Stage Theater’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” at the McGinn/Cazale Theater

December 22, 2019 | Off-Broadway, transl > | "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord", Alexis Scheer, Alyssa May Gold, Andrew Jean, Carmen Berkeley, Fan Zhang, Judi Lewis Ockler, Kelly Gillespie CSA, Lucrecia Briceno, Malika Samuel, McGinn/Cazale Theater, Rebecca Jimenez, Second Stage Theater, Shira Friedman Photography, Whitney White, WP Theater, Yu-Hsuan Chen

“But women only need themselves to plant seeds in hearts and minds that stab and twist when they begin to root, ensnaring us all with just a thought.” – Pablo F***ing Escobar in “My Dear Dead Drug Lord” Alexis Sheer’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,” in its final days at the McGinn/Cazale Theater, is deeply disturbing and profoundly important. Co-produced…

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Preview: Tori Sampson’s “This Land Was Made” at the Vineyard Theatre

Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern announce casting for Vineyard Theatre’s Developmental Lab production of Tori Sampson’s THIS LAND WAS MADE, directed by Whitney White. Vineyard’s Developmental Labs allow a playwright and director to explore a work-in-progress on its feet in collaboration with a full creative team, and include staging and design elements. Presentations are Thursday, July 26 –…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical” at the New York Musical Festival at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride…

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