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I originally saw Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play downtown at the Lucille Lortel in 2017. Nearly a decade later, now playing Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, the play remains wickedly funny, painfully recognizable and far more disturbing than its buoyant title initially suggests. If I…
Teenage girls are having a moment on the Great White Way. While many have maligned the seemingly inevitable decline of Broadway due to its aging audience or rising ticket costs, plays like 2025’s “John Proctor Is The Villain” and now “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play” have injected a new life into the art…
The playwright reflects on reviving her 2017 play on Broadway: “People are more educated now about what colorism is.”