Read our four-star review of Manahatta off Broadway, Mary Kathryn Nagle's play making its New York premiere at The Public Theater through December 23. Read all our theatre reviews at NewYorkTheatreGuide.com.
Chronicle Staff April 5, 2021
Sheila Tousey and Rainbow Dickerson in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Manahatta,” which streams as part of the theater’s 2021 season. Photo: Jenny Graham, Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2018
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Two centuries of colonization in ‘Manahatta’
The past isn’t past at all in Mary Kathryn Nagle’s “Manahatta.” “Indeed,” she writes in a note at the top of her script, the past and present “are one and the same.”
The show, whose 2018 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production is streaming as an early entry in the theater’s digital and in-person hybrid season, takes place in both the 17th and 21st centuries.