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The Benchmark Theatre is a small professional company in Lakewood whose motto to “keep the conversation going” takes center stage with their current production of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Against the backdrop of a racially charged society, a playwright and a theater company seek to spark conversation as the Gamm ...

This week, the Voice published a preview of “The Octoroon: An Adaptation of The Octoroon Based on The Octoroon,” a new version of Dion Boucicault’s melodrama adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. We ...

It's appropriate that the first known use of the term "mash-up" derives from an 1859 play titled "The Octoroon," since Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' contemporary take on that slave-era melodrama is most ...

The award-winning play at the Gamm Theater in Warwick, R.I., pokes at sensibilities, pries at prejudices and pushes at closed gates in a person’s mind. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Obie-award winning play ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins wrote and directs this adaptation of the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault’s nineteenth-century melodrama. (Performance Space New York.) ...