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The First Breeze of Summer

Signature Theatre Company

555 W 42nd St (between Tenth and Eleventh Aves)
Midtown West | Map

212-244-7529

Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority | Directions

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Tickets: $65

Description
The Signature’s new season, devoted to the Negro Ensemble Company, begins with Leslie Lee’s sprawling ’70s potboiler, a pleasantly overheated stew of race and sex and family prayer meetings. Leslie Uggams stars as Lucretia, a beloved grandma nestled in the bosom of her clan; in a luscious series of encounters, we see just how her younger self (Yaya Dacosta) managed to get such a brood. Concealed under its soapy surface, Breeze roils with hypocrisy and the costs of human sexuality, but despite scattered excellence, some of the actors can’t handle Lee’s complex characterizations.—HS

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Tomorrow 7pm , Wed 2pm, 8pm , Thu–Fri 8pm , Sat 2pm, 8pm , Sun 2pm .
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