" 'Ain’t No Mo’ has an immediate impact, but its biting commentary on race doesn’t leave a bruise."
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"This play is fanged, ferocious, and funny as all get out."
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" 'Ain’t No Mo’ is a dazzling cascade of ideas...It’s as shiny, heavy and fabulously overstuffed as Miss Bag, and it speaks compellingly to the bind of Black Americans in the post-Obama age."
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"It’s a show that’s bawdy and bold and uninterested in seeming respectable, but it’s also fascinated by respectability, the question of who might leave or stay on that flight, who might embrace their Blackness and who might try to bury it."
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"Angry, funny, uncompromising and performed at an extraordinarily high level...It abandons caution to the winds and really, really goes there, meaning wherever the heck Cooper wants."
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“ 'Ain’t No Mo’,' produced on Broadway by a team led by Lee Daniels, is a daring and uproarious feat of performance that is thrillingly alive to the moment."
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"All the ensemble performers here — are superb. And while this is no traditional Broadway attraction, with all the attendant risks for the producers, the production values for the show are inventive and strikingly well realized."
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"One of the things that impressed me about the play this time around - was the oppressive presence of whiteness that Cooper and the creative team create with nary a Caucasian in sight."
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