BLKS NYC Reviews and Tickets

77%
(144 Ratings)
Positive
83%
Mixed
14%
Negative
3%
Members say
Funny, Raunchy, Great acting, Entertaining, Edgy

About the Show

Poet Aziza Barnes makes their playwriting debut with this poignant and comic play about three twenty somethings in New York City hunting for intimacy and purpose in a city that doesn’t seem to care.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (144)

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124 Reviews | 23 Followers
82
Refreshing, Entertaining, Great acting, Funny, Delightful

See it if you are down for a good time and open to super modern and animated character, a refreshing take, my jaw hurt from smiling too much

Don't see it if Looking for something more traditional, it’s not very romantic or slow paced so you must be on the ride, this show takes off right away Read more

214 Reviews | 28 Followers
81
Thought-provoking, Quirky, Funny, Absorbing

See it if you don't mind overtly sexual and sometimes raunchy humor. The show is hysterical, but it's definitely not a brand of humor for all.

Don't see it if you shy away from open, sometimes off-the-cuff conversation about sex, bodies, race, and society. Though I feel it's necessary uneasiness.

386 Reviews | 108 Followers
81
Relevant, Edgy, Funny, Entertaining, Absorbing

See it if It was so great to see queer women of color front and center in a show that celebrated joy and quirkiness and sex and immaturity and the

Don't see it if ludicrousness of being young and free in a big city. It framed the main trio's shenanigans firmly in the time, acknowledging the specific Read more

73 Reviews | 13 Followers
80
Edgy, Great acting, Funny, Clever

See it if Very funny and clever. Totally raunchy, and delightfully relevant. The actors were terrific

Don't see it if If you are offended biy sexual scenes, and non traditional relationships, this is not for you

105 Reviews | 20 Followers
80
Edgy, Profound, Intelligent, Funny, Entertaining

See it if You like an almost believable story about roommates in NYC.

Don't see it if You do not like the "f" word or "c" word being used often in a show.

541 Reviews | 489 Followers
80
Relevant, Absorbing, Refreshing, Great acting, Delightful

See it if you want to see something that's both very funny and very powerful.

Don't see it if you don't like to laugh.

180 Reviews | 54 Followers
80
Relevant, Edgy, Great staging, Entertaining

See it if want to see 3 women deal with their romantic lives and preference. good and bad ways men treat women but how women can do the same

Don't see it if female dating lives don't interest you

224 Reviews | 44 Followers
80
Raunchy, Quirky, Intelligent, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if You want a truthful play about your early-20s in NYC while trying to figure things out.

Don't see it if You don’t like crude humor or language. Read more

Critic Reviews (21)

Broadway & Me
May 18th, 2019

“An African-American riff on the TV shows ‘Girls’ and ‘Sex and the City’...O’Hara paints with broad strokes that underscore how potty-mouthed and raunchy the women are. And that undermines what Barnes is trying to say about the extra burdens so many young black women bear...O’Hara hits so hard on the humor that the challenges the women face get overshadowed and the intended epiphanies fall flat.”
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Stage Left
May 17th, 2019

“This play lands like the extended pilot episode of TV’s newest hit sitcom...The queer black millennial patois of the central three characters is both refreshing to hear and side-splittingly funny...While exceptionally staged and performed, the play nevertheless hews toward the schematic and ultimately makes a more compelling case for its adaptation on the small screen. That critique can only exist because the characters are so compelling and lovable.”
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Off Script with Dan Dwyer
May 24th, 2019

“A kick-ass, bad-ass, loud, raw, often hilarious, and always vital new play...that lets the dogs out on life in America from the 20something, African American women’s POV...The humor is ostensibly sitcom...Even if her writing can be uneven, at its best 'BLKS' is uproarious social farce whether Barnes intends it to be or not...One of the freshest, most energetic new AMERICAN plays from a new AMERICAN playwright about life in AMERICA.”
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W
May 11th, 2019

"It is very good to hear new voices in the American Theatre and the play 'BLKS' at the new Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space certainly represents new outlooks. This is poet Aziza Barnes' first play script and she doesn't hold back. It is a full bore buoyant bounty of Brooklyn people of color that moves fast and funny through a day in their lives. The real credit for the driving pace goes to director Robert O'Hara's direction which keeps the show moving on the revolving set."
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T
May 22nd, 2019

"O’Hara, who is no stranger to pushing the envelope, has found a perfect match. O’Hara unleashes the poet-turned-playwright’s debut play for the world to take…or leave. Judging from the laughter and verbal response from the audience, most of the crowd chose to take it. Aziza’s dialogue is...Raw, honest, and, at times, unapologetically coarse...The actors do an applaudable job...All in all, ‘BLKS’ is definitely worth seeing.”
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