The Benchmark Theatre is a small professional company in Lakewood whose motto to “keep the conversation going” takes center stage with their current production of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ...

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Against the backdrop of a racially charged society, a playwright and a theater company seek to spark conversation as the Gamm Theatre returns to the work of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to stage “An ...

A thrilling collision of the antebellum South and 21st century cultural politics, An Octoroon is a subversively humorous deconstruction of The Octoroon, Irish playwright Dion Boucicault's 1859 ...

This week, the Voice published a preview of “The Octoroon: An Adaptation of The Octoroon Based on The Octoroon,” a new version of Dion Boucicault’s melodrama adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. We ...

The award-winning play at the Gamm Theater in Warwick, R.I., pokes at sensibilities, pries at prejudices and pushes at closed gates in a person’s mind. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Obie-award winning play ...

It's appropriate that the first known use of the term "mash-up" derives from an 1859 play titled "The Octoroon," since Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' contemporary take on that slave-era melodrama is most ...

Ned Bennett directed Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' remarkable play An Octoroon at the Orange Tree theatre last year, to all-round excellent reviews. The knotty, form-busting piece is a riff on The Octoroon ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins radical 2014 reboot of Irish playwright, Dion Boucicault's notorious 1859 play The Octoroon makes its Dublin premiere. Both old and new, both disturbing and hilarious, the ...

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