A Journey to the Cosmos and Back Into Oneself in “Creation Stories”

Yes, It’s Tough to Be a Playwright: creation stories

Mfoniso Udofia’s ‘creation stories and all the important importants,’ now at Lincoln Center, spends a lot of its time agonizing over whether it should be one—which doesn’t make for great theater.

creation stories and all the important importants ★★★★

The creation that is creation stories and all the important importants has one asset so major that it’s impossible to ignore: its transfixing leading lady, Abigail C. Onwunali.   In this past spring’s Broadway revival of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Onwunali had a late-play entrance but still managed to grab the production and shake it to dramatic heights it’d yet to achieve. Now, at LCT3, she IS the play from start to finish — she practically ne…

A Journey to the Cosmos and Back into Oneself in “creation stories”

Review by Stuart Miller. In Mfoniso Udofia’s new play creation stories and all the important importants, which opened tonight at the Claire Tow Theatre at Lincoln Center, an unnamed “Grown Woman” wakes from a surreal dream about spirit forces and the night sky. She turns to Alexa and Siri to provide alarms and playlists to keep her […]