“In TOPDOG/UNDERDOG history screams and bleeds in this work of Parks’ as intensely as ever.”– Alisa Solomon, The Village Voice Its soul is nourished by the sad, shared loneliness and disappointment of this Black latter-day Booth and Lincoln, so named by their long-vanished father.”– Peter Marks, The Washington Post But the play is a more complicated and heartbreaking work. “ TOPDOG/UNDERDOG explores the multiple layers of sibling competition and intimacy - all that love wrapped in hate wrapped in love. Both a vivid, present-tense family portrait and an endlessly reverberating allegory, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG plies the fine theatrical art of deception to convey the dangers of role-playing in a society in which race is a performance and prison.”– Ben Brantley, The New York Times “TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is as exciting as any new play from a young American since Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Her voice is both idiosyncratic and eerily familiar, one of few in the popular theatre to fully exploit the power of spoken Black English.”- Hilton Als, The New Yorker “ A writer who crosses cultural boundaries, as well as social ones, she has had her work produced everywhere, from the smallest avant-garde stages to Broadway. She is an original whose fierce intelligence, and fearless approach to craft, subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh. “Suzan-Lori Parks is a remarkable playwright. Strictly Limited Engagement on Broadway This Fall Cooper, Ain't No Mo' Samuel L.The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterpiece Returns to Broadway But it is Tom Stoppard's new play about the Holocaust, Leopoldstadt, which received the most nominations: six, with Fat Fam, Cost of Living and Life of Pi following with five each. The nominations also highlighted three plays which have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Between Riverside and Crazy, Cost of Living and Fat Ham. Although some theater awards, like the Drama Desk, the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards don't divide actors into male and female roles, the Tony Awards do. Newell plays the featured, female role of Lulu in Shucked. Ghee, in Some Like It Hot, plays the leading role of Jerry, a man who disguises himself as a woman and then comes to realize parts of both identities suit. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell are the first nonbinary actors to be nominated for Tony Awards. This year's musical theater nominations made a little bit of history: J. The musical Some Like It Hot - a theatrical remake of the 1959 Billy Wilder movie musical - garnered 13 Tony nominations, the most in a season that saw many new plays and musicals take the stage.

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