Review: In ‘Ain’t No Mo’ on Broadway, Black Americans are offered a 1-way plane ticket out. Painful comedy ensues
by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
Dec 06, 2022
3 minutes
NEW YORK — Jordan E. Cooper’s “Ain’t No Mo’,” a blast of a Broadway show, doesn’t so much occupy the space between sketch comedy and old-school play as smash a hole in whatever barrier long has been assumed to divide them.
Angry, funny, uncompromising and performed at an extraordinarily high level, “Ain’t No Mo’” puts you in mind of such antecedents as George C. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum,” the Wayans family’s “In Living
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