What’s it like for a female actor to be directed by a man? Or a gay actor to be directed by a straight? Keith Hamilton Cobb examines his decades-long career as an African-American actor being directed by white men. The result is his fiery new meltdown of a play, “American Moor,” which opened Sunday at the Cherry Lane Theatre and presented by the Red Bull Theater. Cobbs plays himself, or someone simply credited as “an actor,” and Josh Tyson plays “a director,” who speaks from the au...
'American Moor' Theater Review: An Actor Confronts Othello - and a Fraught History With White Directors
The Wrap - 9 Sep 2019 03:00
What’s it like for a female actor to be directed by a man? Or a gay actor to be directed by a straight? Keith Hamilton Cobb examines his decades-long career as an African-American actor being directed by white men. The result is his fiery new meltdown of a play, “American Moor,” which opened Sunday at the Cherry Lane Theatre and presented by the Red Bull Theater. Cobbs plays himself, or someone simply credited as “an actor,” and Josh Tyson plays “a director,” who speaks from the au...
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