That we-don’t-know-what-to-call-it Broadway play starring Chris Rock (the Tony announcers called it The Mother With the Hat, which is an apt descriptor of Queen Elizabeth if not a brazenly funny drama about drug addiction, recouped its investment, as was announced today. The presence of Mr. Rock surely helped (or–did they? Plenty of superstars don’t Read More
“Leave the gun,” Jackie, the volatile, recovering-addict ex-con at the center of The Motherf**ker With the Hat, is told halfway through the play. “Take the empanadas.”
It’s a throwaway line, but a sharp and clever one: exactly right for the moment; a riff on The Godfather, another work about New Yorkers on the edges of Read More
“I think if you’re in the theater, of course, the idea of coming to Broadway is exciting, the same way that if you’re a baseball player, you want to play in Yankee stadium,” said the playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis.
It was a little after noon on March 10, and Mr. Guirgis was sitting on the Read More
