'Ain't No Mo'': Lee Daniels and Gabrielle Union Attend Broadway Show on Opening Night (Photos)

Photo: Emilio Madrid

The wait forAin’t No Mo’is no more.

The highly anticipated show officially opened on Broadway last Thursday at the Belasco Theater.

From the pen of 27-year-old Jordan E. Cooper — the youngest American playwright in Broadway’s centuries-long history — comes this highly anticipated dark comedy, which turns racist taunt “go back to Africa” on its head with surprising and provocative results.

Emilio Madrid

The show’s cast also features the talent ofFedna Jacquet, Marchánt Davis, Shannon Matesky, Ebony Marshall-Oliver, and Crystal Lucas-Perry.Variety’s rave review ofAin’t No Mo’called the ensemble a"dynamite cast of six,“and the production itself “a daring and uproarious feat of performance that is thrillingly alive to the moment.”

“Explosive as a hand grenade of laughing gas, it’s heady and hysterical and fearlessly provocative,” the review says. “Its keen observations about race as both social construction and lived reality crackle like a lit fuse.”

“It is confident in its voice, in its beliefs, in its artistry, in its wicked humor and angry pain — or pain-laden anger,” the review says.

TheTimesalso lauded the work of costume designer Emilio Sosa and wig designer Mia M. Neal. Scott Pask, Adam Honoré, Jonathan Deans and Taylor Williams round out theAin’t No Mo’design team, with Wagner Johnson Productions serving as executive producers and general management.

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Ain’t No Mo’isshowing at the Belasco Theater.

source: people.com