Naa Akua – NWTheatre

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Latest:

Chase D. Anderson July 21, 2019July 28, 2019 Allyson Lee Brown, Center House Theater, Claudia Rankine, Jay O'Leary, Naa Akua, Nicholas Japaul Bernard, Rebecca Cort, Richard Sean Glen, Shermona Mitchell, Sound Theatre Company, Stephen Sachs, The Hansberry Project

‘Citizen’ Powerfully Engages the Everyday of Racism in America

The book, by MacArthur Genius Claudia Rankine, is a masterwork. So is Sound Theatre and the Hansberry Project’s staging, in which all elements coalesce flawlessly into a challenging and invigorating production. It runs through July 28.

REVIEW THEATRE

Chase D. Anderson April 8, 2019November 14, 2021 Anastacia-Renee, Annex Theatre, Aviona Rodriguez Brown, Capitol Hill, Ebo Barton, Jalayna Carter, Kamari Bright, Naa Akua, Seattle, Simone Dawson

Honoring Black Lives & Mothers Stolen in ‘Queer, Mama. Crossroads’

The new play from Anastacia-Reneé, Seattle’s Civic Poet, deals with trauma, death, violence and loss, but does so from a perspective of voice and remembrance — a performative memorial, centered on Black queer mothers. It shows at Annex Theatre through May 4.