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