The world premiere of Tambo & Bones is at Playwrights Horizons in spring 2022. Tambo & Bones tickets are available on New York Theatre Guide now.
Tambo & Bones is a play in which the two title characters are trapped in a minstrel show. It's mad hard to feel like a real person when you're trapped in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get bank, get even. A rags-to-riches hip-hop journey, Tambo & Bones roasts America’s racist past, wrestles America’s racist present, and explodes America’s post-racial future — where what’s at stake, for those deemed less-than-human, is the fate of humanity itself.
Playwrights Horizons is requiring all audience members to be fully vaccinated and have received a booster shot to attend performances of Tambo & Bones Off-Broadway.
Tickets to Tambo & Bones are available now. Book your Tambo & Bones tickets on New York Theatre Guide today.
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UPDATE: Tambo & Bones has pushed its run back by one week. The show will begin performances January 19, open February 7, and close February 27. Casting for Playwrights Horizons's production of Tambo & Bones has been announced ahead of the play's Off-Broadway world premiere on January 12. The show, written by Dave Harris and directed by Taylor Reynolds, opens January 31 and will run through February 20.
“It’s quite easy to write poorly and have a white person call you powerful,” Tambo & Bones playwright, Dave Harris, details in an essay in the play’s program. The new production, now open at Playwrights Horizons, proves his point perfectly. The three-act, 90-minute production, directed by Taylor Reynolds, is part minstrel act, part underground rap spectacle, part academic hoopla that... Read more