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Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" 10/3/23

by Howard Miller

A couple of years back, Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh led the post-pandemic reopening of the Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park with a delightful retelling of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor. Retitled Merry Wives and relocated to modern day Harlem, it featured characters representing members of the African immigrant population from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. Very speci…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48pm on November 16, 2023