Laura Collins-Hughes

New York

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Freelance arts journalist, mostly theater. • Chances are, I didn’t write the headline. • [email protected]

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Sons Calling for Their Mothers

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

Directed by Maria Mileaf, with music by Mustapha Khan, William Kenneth Vaughan and Norman Burns, it is a strange, sprawling, time-hopping work of memory, fiction and adaptation. On a set by Neil Patel, the production juggles moods, tones and theatrical styles, and has some fun with disco dancing and water ballet. (Choreography is by Shura Baryshnikov, lighting by Matthew Richards, costumes by Karen Boyer.) The abundance, however, gets to be unwieldy.
At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self [The New York Times)-

2 weeks ago | afropages.fr | Laura Collins-Hughes
At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

We are living, all of us, in an exhausting world, and the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka is not immune. You don't become as profoundly invested in art and politics as he has been over his long life unless you care to your core about the path that we as a species are charting. "I'm a fundamentalist of human freedom," he said one morning last week in Brooklyn.
What Are You Waiting For?

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

Mona is also our narrator, explaining at the start: "I made these characters jealous and petty and competitive, unlike playwrights in real life. Just to clear that up.
13 Off Broadway Shows to Tempt You in April

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

Theater in New York is nearing its seasonal crescendo, with stages Off Broadway and beyond teeming with activity. Of the many notable productions happening in April, here is a baker's dozen to tantalize you.
A White Supremacist's Undoing: DNA

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

There was a guy I knew when I was in my teens. Blond and blue-eyed, popular at the beach, he named his puppy after a superstar. It made him laugh to let people in on the gut-punch nasty joke behind it: that, as far as he was concerned, both were black female dogs. Chisa Hutchinson's layered new play, " Amerikin," has me thinking about that for the first time in decades.
Just Before It Was a Cult Film, ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Was a Broadway Flop

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

ADLER What I learned immediately is if the critics didn’t like you, you didn’t have long. So at that point, not to spoil any of the excitement of coming out of London and L.A., and about the release of the film, I wanted to close as quickly as possible. If I regret it, I only regret it because I didn’t give it the chance to grow. I don’t know if it could have, but that might have been interesting, too.
Just Before It Was a Cult Film, 'Rocky Horror Show' Was a Broadway Flop

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

Fifty years have passed, but the actor Tim Curry isn't sure he has ever forgiven the reception that "The Rocky Horror Show" received in its original Broadway production, which was also his Broadway debut. "I try not to think about it," he said the other day by phone from Los Angeles.
Drawing From Bob Dylan's Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

Ordinarily, the actor-writer-musician Todd Almond is a pretty unflappable stage presence. But normal rules do not apply when you discover at intermission that Bob Dylan is in the audience of the performance you're giving of a musical that's saturated with his songs - and your harmonica solo is coming up.
Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes

Conventional wisdom says the theater is slow to react to current events, but dramatists like Ayad Akhtar ( "McNeal") have clamored lately to tell stories about artificial intelligence, sometimes using it to help with the writing. Alas, the hype around that technology does not correlate here with narrative cogency.

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6 Nov 24

Intermission report: Very busy crying through “Suffs.” This theater is electric. The audience feeling every word, every phrase, every beat as a metaphor for the moment we’re in. Also, “Suffs” should run forever. Any other future for it is madness.

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5 Nov 24

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Articles

Sons Calling for Their Mothers

At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self [The New York Times)-

At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self

What Are You Waiting For?

13 Off Broadway Shows to Tempt You in April

A White Supremacist's Undoing: DNA

Just Before It Was a Cult Film, ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Was a Broadway Flop

Just Before It Was a Cult Film, 'Rocky Horror Show' Was a Broadway Flop

Drawing From Bob Dylan's Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality

Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.

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