Jocelyn Bioh, who has written for “The Acolyte” and “Tiny Beautiful Things” and will be featured on Variety’s “2024 10 Screenwriters to Watch” List, has won the 2024 Horton Foote Prize for her play ...

The Black Women on Broadway Awards set the 2026 honorees for its fifth annual ceremony on Tuesday: producer Debra Martin Chase, director Whitney White, performer Alana Raquel Bowers and casting ...

There’s Mean Girls fever in the air. Yes, Tina Fey’s Broadway-bound musical adaptation is finally having its world premiere in Washington, D.C., but there’s another, very different version of the Mean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Character is kind of where I start from,” explains Jocelyn Bioh, “I feel like all of my work is character driven narratives.” She ...

Every few decades the theater needs its “Steel Magnolias.” Before Robert Haring’s beauty-shop dramedy opened in 1987, there was Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 comedy, “The Women,” which also made a beauty ...

The playwright Jocelyn Bioh lives around the block from the Good Year African Hair Braiding Salon, on 125th Street and Morningside Avenue, in Harlem. On a recent Wednesday morning, she sat in Nafi ...

DAY IN THE LIFE ‘Jaja’s’ takes place in a Harlem hair-braiding shop where West-African immigrant braiders weave the hair of locals in the community. (Photo by Ben Krantz Studio/Berkeley Rep) It’s now ...

Somewhat surprisingly—their mediums aside—Jocelyn Bioh likens the creation of a new musical much more closely to working on a television show than to working on a straight play. And she certainly ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Playwright Jocelyn Bioh appeared on Good Morning America on Friday to talk about ...

If the team of Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh (“School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play”) and Kenyan-born director Saheem Ali brings nothing else to the stages of New York City, they ...

Her new “Star Wars” show is a dream come true, but she knows it carries enormous expectations. “I would be lying if I said I wasn’t scared,” she said. By Brooks Barnes “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” ...

MCC Theater has named Jocelyn Bioh the inaugural Burnt Umber playwright-in-residence, placing her at the heart of the theatre's institutional core. The School Girls and Nollywood Dreams playwright ...