From left: Nikkole Salter, Jason Dirden, Billy Eugene Jones, and Rosie Benton in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly.’’
(Scott Schuman)
Stage Review
Pointed humor
Probing race, class, gender, and family in Huntington’s sharp ‘Stick Fly’
From left: Nikkole Salter, Jason Dirden, Billy Eugene Jones, and Rosie Benton in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly.’’
(Scott Schuman)
Acutely observant, laugh-out-loud funny, achingly painful, and complicated as only real human stories can be - it’s a fine night in the theater if a play earns even one of these descriptions. To provide all of that and more, as Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly’’ does - well, that’s just cause to shout for joy. (Full article: 867 words)
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