An Octoroon

New York Post

So energetic, funny, and entertainingly demented, you can’t look away…it’s hard to beat Marsha Stephanie Blake and Jocelyn Bioh’s hilarious Dido and Minnie.

Time Out New York

Despite the moments of palpable fear and disquiet, the audience leaves feeling somehow healthier, as though the theater has given us a violent shake and a pep talk…a tremendously exciting production, moving and chilling and surprising at once. Critics’ Pick.

NY Daily News

Boldly hilarious…a terrific cast…potent staging.

New Yorker

The play uses the plot of the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault’s 1859 antebellum melodrama…as the starting point for a bigger, wilder, more hilarious play about the tremendous, often tragic difficulties of identity, and life, for us all…an awe-inspiring set by Mimi Lien.

The New York Times, Critics' Pick

What a show it is…Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins, Ms. Benson and their highly resourceful design team use pretty much every weapon in the arsenals of both theatrical demolition and good old, crowd-tickling showbiz.

Two 2014 OBIE Awards for AN OCTOROON

Best New American Play awarded to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins for AN OCTOROON as well as APPROPRIATE at Signature Theatre, and Performance OBIE to Chris Myers.

TheaterMania

Myers gives a tour de force in his triple roles as the blasé black playwright, the charming leading man, and the mustachioed villain…AN OCTOROON is fearless, dangerous theater that challenges conventional notions of history and performance.

The Village Voice

A wildly imaginative new work…an adventurous, razor-sharp cast and a shrewd team of designers.