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The play hits the Majestic Theatre stage this weekend and shows how Black women connect, share and heal through the ritual of doing one anothers hair.

Blood Wedding was not everything we'd hoped for from a Shaking the Tree production, but there were good moments. Read the critical review from our culture editor Suzette Smith. Shaking the Tree's "Blood Wedding" is most successful in its fourth wall break and the supporting cast's acapella singing. Read the review from our culture editor Suzette Smith.

Do you remember what it was like to be 17? Excited, angsty, passionate, confused, and hopeful all at once. And maybe you fell in love for the first time with someone who was oh-so-wrong but also perhaps oh-so-right. If any of that sounds familiar, and especially if you happened to be a teenager in the 90s, Jessica Wallenfels’ GREAT WIDE OPEN should be on your radar.

About halfway through Fucking A, a character named Butcher (John San Nicolas) delivers a language-bending monologue that lists every law his daughter has broken. The offenses range from the severe to the mundane to the absurd. They include homicide, jaywalking, and “leading men and women into cyberspace and leaving them there lost,” among many, many more. Butcher’s speech tells us that world of Fucking A is one where just about anything can be outlawed. Ironically,...