Deanna Reed-Foster Archives

A Black woman in a black-and-white patterned top and black medical scrubs stands in an office filled with white desks and chairs. She is standing next to a white woman in blue scrubs who is seated at her desk.

Check yourself

by Amanda Finn April 28, 2022April 27, 2022

Every once in a while you encounter a show that makes you laugh so much it hurts. But rarely do you get a show that, sometimes seconds later, causes painful silence in the crowd. The fact that the late Joel Drake Johnson’s Rasheeda Speaking first premiered in 2014 (at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble) is an all-too-pointed […]

Black woman standing with paper in hand, delivering a speech. Behind her are walls covered with dead vines and suitcases.

Theater Review

Talking democracy to death

by Kerry Reid January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

If you think Congress is inept in a crisis now, just wait till you see what 2465 has in store! In Brendan Pelsue’s dystopian dramedy, Wellesley Girl, the U.S. has been reduced to three (or maybe four, if you count abandoned Wellesley) towns in Massachusetts—the only places on the eastern seaboard where, thanks to MIT […]