If the team of Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh (“School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play”) and Kenyan-born director Saheem Ali brings nothing else to the stages of New York City, they ...

Audiences need not be steeped in knowledge of Nigerian culture to appreciate Round House Theatre’s uproariously funny regional premiere of Jocelyn Bioh’s Nollywood Dreams (★★★★☆). But it helps to know ...

Little actual work is being done at the family travel agency being run by sisters Ayamma and Dede. Ayamma dreams of becoming the lead actor in a new movie by Nigeria’s hottest director even though she ...

We’ve seen this story dozens of times: A young woman is plucked from obscurity by a powerful man and offered a starring role in a new show. She finds romance and heartache, big breaks and setbacks, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fluff plays like Jean Kerr’s “Mary, Mary” and Neil Simon’s early comedies were made obsolete by TV sitcoms that employed dozens of ...

While audience members for “Nollywood Dreams”—a new play by Jocelyn Bioh, directed by Saheem Ali, at MCC Theatre—were filing in and the set lights were still dim, a lively mix of West African pop ...

Toward the end of "Nollywood Dreams," a fraught encounter erupts between two characters, a justifiably enraged, bitter woman and her erstwhile boyfriend. The scene effectively stilled the virtually ...

Jocelyn Bioh's Nollywood Dreams, which launches MCC Theater's 2021–2022 season, officially opens November 11 following previews that began October 21 at the Newman Mills Theater. Directed by Saheem ...

If the team of Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh (“School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play”) and Kenyan-born director Saheem Ali brings nothing else to the stages of New York City, they ...

Fluff plays like Jean Kerr’s “Mary, Mary” and Neil Simon’s early comedies were made obsolete by TV sitcoms that employed dozens of writers, instead of one playwright, to deliver nonstop jokes to ...