Laura Collins-Hughes
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Freelance arts journalist, mostly theater. • Chances are, I didn’t write the headline. • [email protected]
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Laura Collins-Hughes
Share A brief scene in the new musical “Real Women Have Curves” is as harrowing as anything in the most serious drama on Broadway: a group of terrified workers in a small Los Angeles dress factory, hiding in the dark as they listen to an immigration raid taking place next door.When the raid is over, the first sounds to break the quiet are soft weeping and breath laden with fear.It’s a jolt of somber realism in a show that opts, ultimately, to lean in a feel-good direction.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Laura Collins-Hughes
On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one's dreams. A brief scene in the new musical " Real Women Have Curves " is as harrowing as anything in the most serious drama on Broadway: a group of terrified workers in a small Los Angeles dress factory, hiding in the dark as they listen to an immigration raid taking place next door.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago |
afropages.fr | Laura Collins-Hughes
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1 month 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.
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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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