PASS OVER
Broadway is back (sorta)! Antoinette Nwandu’s PASS OVER began previews this past Wednesday, August 4. An overly simplistic logline for Nwandu’s play would be “Waiting for Godot meets Black Lives Matter,” but it’s much richer and more complex than that. It follows two young Black men as they meander through Chicago, encountering both an eerily friendly white stranger and a more overtly ominous white police officer. I’m really looking forward to seeing the play when I’m next in New York, most notably because Nwandu has decided to radically alter the play’s ending for this production. Mild spoilers ahead: In previous productions, the play ended with the cop killing Moses. But in the wake of the last eighteen months, Nwandu has chosen to write a new ending that is full of joy and humanity. You can read all about that decision in her recent Vulture profile, and be sure to see the play itself if you’re in New York this fall!
—Julia Hammer, Director of Production
