Eleanor Williams

Review: 'CLEOPATRA' at Moxie Theatre And Loud Fridge Theatre Group

“Cleopatra” offers everyone an audience with the charismatic Egyptian queen, as performed by Joy Yvonne Jones, through September 7th.  A joint production, this play opens Moxie Theatre’s 20th season and closes Loud Fridge Theatre Group’s second season with an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra.” 

BWW Review: DOES MY BOMB LOOK BIG IN THIS?, Soho Theatre

What makes a seemingly ordinary 15-year-old girl travel to Syria to become a jihadi bride? Years before Shamima Begum became front page news, writer and actor Nyla Levy was developing the story of Does My Bomb Look Big In This? after being repeatedly cast as the girlfriend of terrorists in her own acting work and becoming frustrated with the representation of young Asian females in the media. The result is a fresh, vibrant and thought-provoking play, showing now at the Soho Theatre.