Jeremy O. Harris: Slave Play

THEATER
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019 & JANUARY 2 - 5, 2020 (continuing through JANUARY 19)
8:00 PM MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY
7:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Golden Theater
252 West 45th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$39-$227
https://slaveplaybroadway.com/

Another corrosive play by an African-American playwright treating issues of race (not to mention our old friends sex and gender — but in relation to race) in a formally inventive, narratively skewed manner.  It's amazing how much great theater has fit that description in the last couple of years — on the whole, the best American theater there's been.  It's even more amazing to have something like this playing on Broadway.  I'm skeptical of attempts to bring characteristically Downtown/Brooklyn stuff Uptown — but it would be nice for one of those attempts to succeed for once.  Go.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Blue Ribbon was once exciting for re-introducing elemental brasserie-style dining to New York — and for staying open late.  Now, when you can’t walk down the street without stepping in bone marrow, the menus seem kind of boring — but decently late hours are rarer than ever, even in the putative Theater District.  Perhaps the most exciting thing about the The Ribbon Midtown, though, is the fancy cocktail bar underneath.