The playwright Kirsten Greenidge, making her New York debut with an Off Broadway production of her play“MILK LIKE SUGAR,” has arrived in the city carrying a stack of good reviews from the premiere production at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. “As dramatically rich as it is sociologically pointed, ‘Milk Like Sugar’ is one of the works of art for which 2011 will be remembered,” Bob Verini wrote in Variety, and David C. Nichols was similarly complimentary in his Los Angeles Times review.
Well, East Coast theatergoers can now have a look too. Ms. Greenidge’s play is about a 16-year-old high school student who enters into a pregnancy pact with two of her friends but finds the desire for a better life at war with her sense of loyalty. The entire cast from La Jolla, which includes Tonya Pinkins (“Caroline, or Change”) and Angela Lewis as Annie, the torn central character, appears here as well in this co-production by Playwrights Horizons, the Women’s Project and La Jolla Playhouse. The director is Rebecca Taichman, who did “Orlando” at Classic Stage Company a year ago (and “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., last spring). In previews, opens Tuesday. Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street, Clinton; (212) 279-4200,playwrightshorizons.org; $55.
Craig Schwartz
From left, Angela Lewis, Nikiya Mathis and Cherise Boothe in Kirsten Greenidge's “Milk Like Sugar,” directed by Rebecca Taichman.
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