"‘Stew’ Takes Deeper Emotions Off the Back Burner: In Zora Howard’s new drama, the kitchen is where the characters reveal their bickering-but-loving true selves."
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"In such moments, Howard's subtext about the precarity and perseverance of black lives, which is threaded delicately elsewhere in the play, threatens to become too obvious. But her intimate 90-minute drama, tautly directed by Colette Robert for page 73, invites a comfortable familiarity, as though we too were in our pajamas at Mama's kitchen table. When a wake-up call finally arrives, it's all the more bracing to bolt upright and face the truth."
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"Zora Howard’s 'Stew' Remixes the Potboiler"
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"For Black Women in America, it's Déjà Vu and 'Stew': Zora Howard's comedy-drama makes its world premiere with Page 73."
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"The finale puts an unfortunate button on 'Stew,' a play otherwise saved from overfamiliarity by vigorous writing, acting, and direction; the closer feels opportunistic, a feel-bad grand gesture that hasn't remotely been earned (and which has a slightly second-hand quality)."
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4/5 Stars. "Playwright Zora Howard debuts Off-Broadway with a tasty kitchen sink-type drama, from the Page 73 non-profit company."
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"In making her professional playwriting debut courtesy of Page 73, Zora Howard has written a powerful kitchen sink drama in 'Stew,' as much about making a literal stew as about the emotional stew the four women in the Tucker family of Mt. Vernon find themselves in."
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"Add to the recipe tasty characters, season it with spicy dialogue, wash it down with a satisfying narrative, and top it off with a superb ensemble and you have 'Stew,' Zora Howard's zesty dramedy."
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