Audra McDonald looks like the star of 'Ohio State Murders,' the new Broadway show at the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York, but everything in director Kenny Leon’s production is designed to focus on the playwright: Adrienne Kennedy.
Audra McDonald and Abigail Stephenson in"Ohio State Murders" on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York.
So you decide to tell him why. In a play that Ohio State’s public relations department likely will not see as an asset for the university.Audra McDonald looks like the star of the new Broadway show at the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York but, by design, everything in director Kenny Leon’s production, which opened Thursday night, is designed to focus on the playwright: Adrienne Kennedy, a 91-year-old Black playwright who, back in 1992, told it like it was in “Ohio State Murders.
A happier story would have a white mentor taking an interest in a woman who is young, gifted and Black, paving her way. But that is not what happens here. The lecturer, Robert Hampshire, turns out to be as weak as he is pathetic. In Suzanne, he sees not a chance to make a difference but to have an affair that leaves her pregnant with twins for whom both he refuse to take any responsibility whatsoever.
McDonald’s performance is immersive, to say the least, as she probes what is, at its core, a memory monologue, not unlike Adam Rapp’s “The Sound Inside,” which was recently on Broadway. Her lending her celebrity to the role is both presented here as an act of generosity to a playwright long overlooked by Broadway, and entirely viable as such. You believe her as this idealistic college woman, progressively shattered by what she finds as an unwelcome Buckeye.
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