A CRAMPED LIVING ROOM appears like a diorama of 1960s Greenwich Village bohemia, afloat in the engulfing expanse of the Harvey Theater’s stage. It contains all the warmth and ire and humanity that get bottled up in a typical New York apartment: a whole world unfolding with nowhere to go. The chasmic darkness of America waits just outside its cozily art-covered walls.Incendiary optimism, depicted as a necessity in life and politics, suffuses Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1964), staged this past February and March by Anne Kauffman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in
The BAM Harvey Theater revival of Lorraine Hansberry s The Sign in Sidney Brustein s Window, a panorama of early 1960s West Village bohemia, the Bushwick of yesteryear, offers its talented cast many opportunities to show their comic timing, though the production cannot overcome the play s flaws entirely.
Get ready for a thrilling performance by Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan in Lorraine Hansberry's Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. A must-see on stage!
Get ready for a thrilling performance by Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan in Lorraine Hansberry's Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. A must-see on stage!