Led by Black playwrights and directors, the American theater has in recent years tried to spotlight some of the less well-known chapters in the nation’s grim history of racism. Nia Akilah Robinson’s ...

Sometimes, humor can act as a salve to cope with and heal from harm. Playwright Nia Akilah Robinson banks on it in “The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar)” (though Jan. 31). The ...

You think, we carry our ancestors with us? No. I do think there are hints they leave for us though. In our walk. Or maybe I don’t know. In the soil. I don’t know. 1832: a mother and daughter stand ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Nia Akilah Robinson’s new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice. By Laura Collins-Hughes In the middle of the night ...

Much of the play is serious in nature, but just like that heavenly apparition, funny moments sporadically occur. Not all of the elements and themes of The Great Privation meld, nor does the patchy ...

A grave — the ultimate cooped-up location — may be a key setting for “The Great Privation (How to Flip Ten Cents Into a Dollar),” but there’s an inspired expansiveness to this time-traveling new drama ...