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Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Who should win Tony Awards, and who will win?
Will/Should win: 'Maybe Happy Ending' Also nominated: 'Buena Vista Social Club,' 'Dead Outlaw,' 'Death Becomes Her,' 'Operation Mincemeat' 'Operation Mincemeat,' a scrappy British comedy about an improbable scheme to trick the Nazis using a corpse with a fake identity, is an amusingly ribald farce until it turns tiresome and wan. 'Buena Vista Social Club,' inspired by the celebrated 1996 album by veteran Cuban musicians, comes most alive in the invigorating music and propulsive dancing. With sardonic songs and a sharp-witted book, 'Death Becomes Her' is a delicious and demented story about two frenemies who launch an absurdly escalating battle after they discover a potion that grants eternal life. Yet the big showdown here pits 'Dead Outlaw,' another idiosyncratic musical about a corpse, against 'Maybe Happy Ending,' an inventive, electrifying show about two robots falling in love. The former boasts mordant humor and a rollicking garage-rock score to tell the strange story of a lawbreaker who finds infamy in the afterlife as a sideshow cadaver. The latter is a heartbreaking budding romance between two androids that's really about our own humanity — the connections we share, the nature of consciousness, and the ephemerality of life itself. Either would be a worthy choice. Advertisement Best play Will win: 'Oh, Mary!' Should win: 'John Proctor Is the Villain' Also nominated: 'Purpose,' 'The Hills of California,' 'English' Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize winner, 'English,' paints a compelling portrait of Iranian adults preparing for an English proficiency exam, but the drama never really lifts off. Jez Butterworth's 'The Hills of California' moves with propulsive energy to its shattering climax in a story that shifts between an ambitious mother in 1950s England and her adult daughters, in various states of wreckage, returning to their childhood home years later. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Purpose,' which recently won the Pulitzer Prize, centers on a political clan led by a towering civil rights pioneer. As the secrets, lies, recriminations, and resentments come tumbling out during a fraught gathering, the play rides a roller coaster of juicy drama. Kimberly Belflower's riveting and timely 'John Proctor Is the Villain,' Advertisement Best revival of a musical Will win: 'Sunset Boulevard' Should win: 'Gypsy' Also nominated: 'Floyd Collins,' 'Pirates! The Penzance Musical' Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's fact-based 'Floyd Collins,' about a scrappy spelunker trapped inside a Kentucky cave whose plight captures the attention of the nation, has a soaring score but can feel more diffuse than gripping at times. 'Pirates!' is frolicsome fun, with writer Rupert Holmes riotously revamping the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and David Hyde Pierce delivering a deadpan rendition of the tongue-twisting 'Modern Major-General Song.' But this is a two-horse race between Jamie Lloyd's radical reinvention of Andrew Lloyd Webber's lugubrious 'Sunset Boulevard' and the fifth Broadway revival of the landmark musical 'Gypsy.' The George C. Wolfe-directed production examines the racial implications of Rose and her children being played by Black women, with Audra McDonald delivering a revelatory 'Rose's Turn.' Yet voters may choose 'Sunset' due to Lloyd's post-modern revitalization, which features live video and camera crews following actors around onstage (and out of the theater!), beamed onto a 23-foot-tall screen. The pictures may have gotten bigger here, but does that make a winning musical? Francis Jue, left, and Daniel Dae Kim in "Yellow Face." Joan Marcus Best revival of a play Will/Should win: 'Yellow Face' Also nominated: 'Eureka Day,' 'Our Town,' 'Romeo + Juliet' The rave-inspired adaptation of 'Romeo + Juliet,' starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler as the star-crossed lovers, was wildly engaging, if unfocused and over-stylized. Jonathan Spector's 'Eureka Day' made a case for extreme relevancy with its explosive satire of woke parents dealing with a mumps outbreak at an elite private school and a heated vaccination debate that erupts. The play's pièce-de-résistance is a virtual meeting that goes off the rails, with the characters looking on in horror at the increasingly vitriolic live-streamed commentary. Still, 'Eureka Day' may be overtaken by David Henry Hwang's hall-of-mirrors farce 'Yellow Face,' Advertisement Joy Woods, left, and Audra McDonald. Julieta Cervantes/Photo: Julieta Cervantes Best leading actress in a musical Will/Should win: Audra McDonald, 'Gypsy' Also nominated: Nicole Scherzinger, 'Sunset Boulevard'; Megan Hilty, 'Death Becomes Her'; Jennifer Simard, 'Death Becomes Her'; Jasmine Amy Rogers, 'Boop! The Musical' This category is usually chock-a-block with battling Broadway divas, and this year is no exception. Broadway newcomer Rogers, Advertisement Best leading actor in a musical Will/Should win: Darren Criss, 'Maybe Happy Ending' Also nominated: Jonathan Groff, 'Just in Time'; Jeremy Jordan, 'Floyd Collins'; Tom Francis, 'Sunset Boulevard'; Andrew Durand, 'Dead Outlaw'; James Monroe Iglehart, 'A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical' This category is rife with nominees pulling off head-turning theatrical stunts. A smoldering Francis, as disillusioned screenwriter Joe Gillis, Advertisement Sarah Snook in "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Marc Brenner Best leading actress in a play Will/Should win: Sarah Snook, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' Also nominated: Laura Donnelly, 'The Hills of California'; Mia Farrow, 'The Roommate'; LaTanya Richardson Jackson, 'Purpose'; Sadie Sink, 'John Proctor Is the Villain' Farrow, 80, transformed from a mousy naif to a scheming thrill-seeker after befriending a streetwise grifter in 'The Roommate.' Donnelly, too, made a radical transformation playing dual roles — as a stage mother desperate to turn her daughters into singing stars, and the prodigal child who returns decades later, world-weary and broken. Richardson Jackson imbues her matriarch with mama-bear warmth and formidable forcefulness as she bends the other family members to her will. Then there's 'Stranger Things' ingenue Sink, as a fierce, combustible teenager who calls out the BS and blows the whistle on some bad behavior. But can anyone beat 'Succession' powerhouse Snook? Not bloody likely. In a cutting-edge adaptation of Oscar Wilde's transgressive novel, Snook delivers a wry, virtuosic solo performance, bringing to life 26 different characters who are Best leading actor in a play Will/Should win: Cole Escola, 'Oh, Mary!' Also nominated: George Clooney, 'Good Night, and Good Luck'; Jon Michael Hill, 'Purpose'; Harry Lennix, 'Purpose'; Louis McCartney, 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow'; Daniel Dae Kim, 'Yellow Face' Will Clooney win for his Broadway debut as legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow in the adaptation of his 2005 film. Don't bet on it. The play,
Associated Press
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Tony Award nominee Marjan Neshat makes history in celebrated Broadway play 'English'
NEW YORK (AP) — Marjan Neshat is a veteran of stage and screen who teaches fledgling actors. Like so many of us, she sometimes has bouts of self-doubt. 'I think on the first day of class, I still always have imposter syndrome, but I've grown to live with it,' she says. 'I never thought that I had the gravitas to be like, 'I'm going to teach you acting.'' This semester, her students at The New School got to witness self-doubt kicked to the curb when Neshat became a first-time Tony Award nominee. 'I'm sure they're all a bit more smitten with me now,' she says, laughing. Neshat earned the nod for her work — appropriately enough — playing a teacher in Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated play 'English,' which premiered on Broadway in the fall. 'There's something about this play that feels so bottomless,' she adds. 'It kind of felt like winning the lottery because it was, to me, everything as an actress that I care about — it was artistic, and it was subtle and it was nuanced.' A different depiction of Middle Eastern life 'English' explores the ways in which language shapes identity, can help people feel understood or misunderstood and the push and pull of culture. It's set in a storefront school near Tehran, where four Iranian students are preparing over several weeks for an English language exam. Neshat plays their teacher, a woman who loves rom-coms and English but who is unmoored, a foot in Iran and one in England, where she lived for many years but never completely felt at home. 'We don't always belong to what we're born to,' says Neshat. 'She understands the potential of language and the potential of reaching beyond yourself. And yet she's at a point in her life where she's also losing a lot of that.' The play is packed with cultural references — like Christiane Amanpour, Hugh Grant and 'Whenever, Wherever' by Shakira. One character admires Julia Roberts' teeth, saying 'They could rip through wire. In a good way.' 'I feel like so often, when you're telling stories about a different culture, especially in the Middle East, it's like, 'Well, we wanna see them behind the veil' and 'We want to see our idea of them.' And I feel like, especially with my character, I feel it defies all of that. I feel she is romantic and flawed and complicated.' The play has made history by making Neshat and co-star Tala Ashe the first female actors of Iranian descent to be Tony-nominated. (The first Iranian-born actor to receive a Tony acting nomination was Arian Moayed.) The two face off at the Tonys on June 8 in the category of best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play alongside Jessica Hecht, Fina Strazza and Kara Young. One woman, two worlds Neshat's family fled postrevolutionary Iran in 1984, when Neshat was 8, and she hasn't been back since. She decided early on she wanted to act, despite her mother's fear that her daughter might share the same fate as Marilyn Monroe. She adores the plays of Anton Chekhov and watching movies on the Criterion Channel, and she's obsessed with the novel 'Anne of Green Gables.' 'I'm not like super-showy. I'm interior and deep,' she says. When 'English' ended its run, she and the cast wept in their dressing rooms. 'She (Neshat) thrives in mystery and yearning and I think I've always strived to capture a feeling that goes beyond language. She's after that, too,' says Toossi. 'I think she holds contradictions and leaves space for the audience. She operates in a register must of us can't quite reach.' Neshat's credits range from the movies 'Sex in the City 2' and 'Rockaway' to an off-Broadway production of 'The Seagull' with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming, and to roles on TV in 'New Amsterdam,' 'Quantico,' 'Elementary' and 'Blue Bloods.' 'I've sort of been saved by art in so many ways,' she says. 'It's been sometimes like a really bad boyfriend, and it's brought out all my middle school rejection and angst, but truly, in the best of ways, I have, I think, become more myself or understood who I am.' 'A cry into the void' 'English' — written in the wake of President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries during his first term — premiered off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company in 2022 with Neshat in the teacher's role. 'There is something very emotional about the fact that she wrote this as like a cry into the void when the Muslim ban happened and the fact we were like opening shortly after Trump became president,' says Neshat. 'Just the culmination of all these things, it felt like an event.' She has a tight bond with Toossi, nurturing her 'English' and also appearing in the playwright's 'Wish You Were Here.' The playwright once saw Neshat at a play reading before they ever met and soon gave the teacher in 'English' the name Marjan. Neshat jokes that 'she wrote me into being.' 'Her writing has given me some of the richest roles of my life,' says. Neshat. For her part, Toossi says getting Neshat and Ashe to be Tony-nominated is her proudest achievement. On the opening night for 'English' on Broadway, Neshat was joined by her mother and her 12-year-old son, Wilder, and they marveled at the journey life takes you. Neshat's grandmother was married at 13 in Iran and never learned to read or write, though she dictated poems and letters. Just two generations later, their family has star on Broadway. 'The little girl I was in Iran would never have imagined that I would be sitting with my mom and nominated for a Tony,' she says. 'It just truly is a ride.'
The Independent
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Tony Award nominee Marjan Neshat makes history in celebrated Broadway play 'English'
Marjan Neshat is a veteran of stage and screen who teaches fledgling actors. Like so many of us, she sometimes has bouts of self-doubt. 'I think on the first day of class, I still always have imposter syndrome, but I've grown to live with it,' she says. 'I never thought that I had the gravitas to be like, 'I'm going to teach you acting.'' This semester, her students at The New School got to witness self-doubt kicked to the curb when Neshat became a first-time Tony Award nominee. 'I'm sure they're all a bit more smitten with me now,' she says, laughing. Neshat earned the nod for her work — appropriately enough — playing a teacher in Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated play ' English,' which premiered on Broadway in the fall. 'There's something about this play that feels so bottomless,' she adds. 'It kind of felt like winning the lottery because it was, to me, everything as an actress that I care about — it was artistic, and it was subtle and it was nuanced.' A different depiction of Middle Eastern life 'English' explores the ways in which language shapes identity, can help people feel understood or misunderstood and the push and pull of culture. It's set in a storefront school near Tehran, where four Iranian students are preparing over several weeks for an English language exam. Neshat plays their teacher, a woman who loves rom-coms and English but who is unmoored, a foot in Iran and one in England, where she lived for many years but never completely felt at home. 'We don't always belong to what we're born to,' says Neshat. 'She understands the potential of language and the potential of reaching beyond yourself. And yet she's at a point in her life where she's also losing a lot of that.' The play is packed with cultural references — like Christiane Amanpour, Hugh Grant and 'Whenever, Wherever' by Shakira. One character admires Julia Roberts' teeth, saying 'They could rip through wire. In a good way.' 'I feel like so often, when you're telling stories about a different culture, especially in the Middle East, it's like, 'Well, we wanna see them behind the veil' and 'We want to see our idea of them.' And I feel like, especially with my character, I feel it defies all of that. I feel she is romantic and flawed and complicated.' The play has made history by making Neshat and co-star Tala Ashe the first female actors of Iranian descent to be Tony-nominated. (The first Iranian-born actor to receive a Tony acting nomination was Arian Moayed.) The two face off at the Tonys on June 8 in the category of best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play alongside Jessica Hecht, Fina Strazza and Kara Young. One woman, two worlds Neshat's family fled postrevolutionary Iran in 1984, when Neshat was 8, and she hasn't been back since. She decided early on she wanted to act, despite her mother's fear that her daughter might share the same fate as Marilyn Monroe. She adores the plays of Anton Chekhov and watching movies on the Criterion Channel, and she's obsessed with the novel 'Anne of Green Gables.' 'I'm not like super-showy. I'm interior and deep,' she says. When 'English' ended its run, she and the cast wept in their dressing rooms. 'She (Neshat) thrives in mystery and yearning and I think I've always strived to capture a feeling that goes beyond language. She's after that, too,' says Toossi. 'I think she holds contradictions and leaves space for the audience. She operates in a register must of us can't quite reach.' Neshat's credits range from the movies 'Sex in the City 2' and 'Rockaway' to an off-Broadway production of 'The Seagull' with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming, and to roles on TV in 'New Amsterdam,' 'Quantico,' 'Elementary' and 'Blue Bloods.' 'I've sort of been saved by art in so many ways,' she says. 'It's been sometimes like a really bad boyfriend, and it's brought out all my middle school rejection and angst, but truly, in the best of ways, I have, I think, become more myself or understood who I am.' 'A cry into the void' 'English' — written in the wake of President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries during his first term — premiered off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company in 2022 with Neshat in the teacher's role. 'There is something very emotional about the fact that she wrote this as like a cry into the void when the Muslim ban happened and the fact we were like opening shortly after Trump became president,' says Neshat. 'Just the culmination of all these things, it felt like an event.' She has a tight bond with Toossi, nurturing her 'English' and also appearing in the playwright's 'Wish You Were Here.' The playwright once saw Neshat at a play reading before they ever met and soon gave the teacher in 'English' the name Marjan. Neshat jokes that 'she wrote me into being.' 'Her writing has given me some of the richest roles of my life,' says. Neshat. For her part, Toossi says getting Neshat and Ashe to be Tony-nominated is her proudest achievement. On the opening night for 'English' on Broadway, Neshat was joined by her mother and her 12-year-old son, Wilder, and they marveled at the journey life takes you. Neshat's grandmother was married at 13 in Iran and never learned to read or write, though she dictated poems and letters. Just two generations later, their family has star on Broadway. 'The little girl I was in Iran would never have imagined that I would be sitting with my mom and nominated for a Tony,' she says. 'It just truly is a ride.'
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘English' star Hadi Tabbal brings his own immigrant experience to Broadway to portray a man ‘stuck between two worlds'
Hadi Tabbal made his Broadway debut in the Pulitzer Prize winning play English by Sanaz Toossi. His character Omid is one of several Iranian adults who spend their time in an English class and must navigate how he is perceived by others based on what language leaves his lips. After finishing the play's successful limited engagement at Roundabout Theatre Company, Tabbal joined Gold Derby to discuss how he was able to pour his own experiences into the script's examination of cross-cultural identities. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. More from GoldDerby Seth Rogen's 'The Studio' - instant Emmy predictions for buzzy new Apple TV+ series 'Étoile' trailer released - instant Emmy predictions for Amy Sherman-Palladino's new Amazon Prime Video series 'The Studio' star Ike Barinholtz tried to keep his cool around Martin Scorsese: 'They say don't meet your heroes, but that's bullsh-t' Gold Derby: I was struck by one of your lines in the play: 'Do you ever think about who you would be if you weren't sure whether you were staying or leaving every day?' How does that concept of shifting identity resonate with you? Hadi Tabbal: I grew up in Lebanon. I came to the States as an adult immigrant. I don't know if I'm the only Lebanese ever on Broadway, or one of two. And that line carries an experience in it that is very hard to explain to people, but you get it when you watch the play. Sometimes you are born in situations where you don't ever have to navigate who you are based on where you are or where you want to go. But as immigrants, as Middle Easterners, as someone who's been through that experience, as people who straddle different cultures or two cultures … that is very much embedded in your story. Because you're always thinking of either leaving or staying. There are consequences for that on your own psyche and on how you sound and on who you are around. So there is a certain weight that we carry in this play, of how we always have to think of ourselves as people who are going to be defined by where we end up. SEETony Talk: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Purpose' comes storming into the race It raises this question of what is lost when we aren't speaking in our native tongue. As someone who speaks multiple languages, did this experience make you reflect on what parts of yourself have perhaps changed over time? Absolutely… I speak French, English, Italian, Arabic, Lebanese, and some Spanish. And I've always felt that we are different people when we speak different languages. If I bust out in French right now, I would sound like a very different person. So you're always navigating identities based on how you sound. When I came here, I had to take accent reduction classes because when I started working, it was almost impossible to work if you had an accent. And that kind of opened up a lot of opportunities, but also erased a lot of who I am because I was never allowed to embrace what I sound like as an adult. I had to Americanize. And that is all there in this play. I play a character who is stuck between two worlds who doesn't know where they belong. And I feel these things every day. I have a bit of an accent, but it's almost indiscernible. But also when I go back home, I sound American and I feel like I'm out of place, but then I sometimes shy away from speaking Arabic in front of Americans because I just don't want to open that chapter. I don't want them to see me in that light. So there is ingrained shame, there is also taking the easy route. All of these things are dynamics that are in this play, which is why I love it so much. The actors used, or dropped, an accent to delineate when someone is speaking in English or Farsi. What did that bring up for you? One experience that has been constant is this idea of feeling rejected wherever you land. There is a scene between my character and Marjan's character, the teacher, where I give her a little gift and at a certain point she tells me: you're from there, you're not like me. And that always hurts every night because you are trying so hard to belong at home and you're rejected because you are not really from home. And you try so hard to belong where you're going and you're also rejected because you're not from there. And so a lot of the vulnerabilities that opened up every night have been very much rooted in my personal life. As artists, that's what we do when we're on stage. We just put our hearts out there for audiences to consume, for lack of a better word, but I do it happily. And so I think your blood is out there on the stage, your heart, your experiences, all your vulnerabilities. You still have family in Lebanon. I have to imagine that makes the subject of the play feel more immediate to you. What was it like performing this story after the ceasefire was declared? I'm grateful for that question because the longer I live in the US, the more I feel like I'm an American, but also the more I feel like I'm an immigrant. And maybe because now I have a child and my relationship with my parents is a bit stronger because I have a child and I've been going more often to Beirut. But doing this play while in today's world. … I won't lie to you, if there was no ceasefire in Lebanon before rehearsals, I don't know how I would've done this. It would be very hard to know that there's bombs in the background when you talk to your parents and then be on Broadway. Those are incredibly different experiences. But being able to tell the story of being an in-betweener when I know exactly what it's like to be an in-betweener has been invaluable for me. This is where I'm grateful for artistic opportunities that allow me to put myself in the art and the art in me. I can't name many plays that have been produced on Broadway that are specifically about Middle Eastern actors telling Middle Eastern stories, but you got to be part of one in your debut. What does that mean to you? I'm trying to process it. I'll tell you this: When you are an Arab actor or an Iranian actor like me who started years ago, the stuff I used to read for and have done has been abominable in terms of what was open for us. I mean, you play terrorists, you play the translator of terrorists, you play the good nephew of the terrorists. You're always in that light. You're an outsider. You have some nondescript thick accent that they want you to do. I've lived in New York all my life now, my adult life, and I walk around midtown and it's like, plays don't represent you. They don't have anything to do with you. Whereas I am not an outsider to the American experience, but somehow the American experience on the stage has been very not accessible to me. So to be in this play on Broadway for me is huge. And I think it's huge for all the other actors because I could have been yet another cardboard character in some play and still been on Broadway. But to play an Iranian with grace and with kindness, and to be able to mirror the experiences of Americans as a Middle Eastern actor in my Broadway debut, truly the stars aligned in a way that is so hard to believe for me. SIGN UP for Gold Derby's free newsletter with latest predictions Best of GoldDerby Kennedy Center Honors: 50 entertainers who deserve to be selected Who Needs a Tony to Reach EGOT? Which 21 people have the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)? 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Chicago Tribune
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Review: ‘Dummy in Diaspora' is an immigrant story told with a young and authentic voice
Chicago has seen of late an intriguing clutch of works looking at themes of family, culture and diaspora. Sanaz Toossi's 'English' (seen at the Goodman Theatre) explored a group of Iranian students dealing with the complexities of learning a second language. Michael Shayan's 'Avaaz' (seen at Chicago Shakespeare Theater) looked at life in America from the perspective of an Iranian-Jewish immigrant. And now comes Esho Rasho, a striking figure with a new solo show by Jackalope Theatre called 'Dummy in Diaspora,' a piece about searching for a home in Chicago within the context of an Assyrian immigrant family, filled with stories of the mountains of Iraq and the pleasures of better days spent in the city of Beirut. Rasho, who graduated from DePaul University in 2023, is an early career artist with a long way to go when it comes to universalizing his story and snapping back and forth into different settings. He needs to keep his own aesthetic rules more consistent, especially when it comes to exploring his addiction to nicotine, one of the show's central themes. And he needs work on his temporal pegs. But Rasho is brimming with talent and his 70-minute piece already has enjoyed some acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. It's directed with some pizzazz by Karina Patel. 'My name is Esho,' he says at the start, 'and I think there is something really wrong with me.' Maybe so, but there clearly is a lot more that's right. Much of the piece is about wanting to fulfill family expectations. If you've seen as much autobiographical work as I have, that's a familiar theme. But there was something notably authentic about how Rasho explains that desire in the context of being a young and exploratory gay man, even though your folks were hoping you'd be married off and having kids at age 22. 'There are times when I wish I could give it to them,' he says, eyes shining a little as he speaks of what his Assyrian refuge parents, who met in Chicago, underwent on his behalf. Ergo, this is authentic work about the complexities of identity and Rasho understands that works like this always are better when you embrace paradox and doubt. You're left with a feeling of the performer's immense set of future possibilities and that's always a good feeling to have when you walk out of the theater. Better yet, there's an authentic Chicago flavor to all of this. When a city offers a home for refugees, it is often their children who become part of the repayment for that hospitality, enriching our theaters and understanding. Interestingly, the Broadway Armory Park has of late been a temporary home to a new generation of newcomers to Chicago. Now, with Jackalope returning to its old theater space there, we see the benefit of new Chicagoans with new kids, new stories, old worries we all share. Chris Jones is a Tribune critic. cjones5@ Review: 'Dummy in Diaspora' (3 stars) When: Through March 23 Where: Jackalope Theatre at Broadway Armory Park, 5917 N. Broadway St. Running time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
