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It doesnt need an intermission, but its got one.
Its strange to think back to whatOur Ladymust have been in its 2002 premiere at the Labyrinth Theater Company.
Philip Seymour Hoffman directed that production in a fourth-floor space on 21st Street that doesnt exist anymore.
should fit right in in 2018.
Our Ladyis a character-driven play, built on a premise rather than a complicated plot.
A beloved nun who taught at a neighborhood Catholic school in Harlem has died.
This is not the world!
Guirgis has no mercy for his characters but a great deal of sympathy.
They live in a city that breaks people, in a country thats broken.
What are they to do but rage?
And, in moments, they rage powerfully.
Years ago, Norca slept with Inezs then-husband, Walter a.k.a.
Walt Spanglers set is a bit like a series of dioramas.
When was the last time a bar in New York felt that roomy?
Navigating it is a fight, living in it a daily battle of wills.
But the characters of thisOur Lady of 121st Street all scrappy, surly fighters have too much breathing room.
Our Lady of 121st Streetis at the Signature Theatre through June 17.
