A BOY AND HIS SOUL Review Quotes
“WONDERFUL! THEATRICAL GOLD! Great humor and warmth, and stirringly poignant. A tour de force! A play with so much heart…and soul.” Roma Torre, NY1 “’A BOY AND HIS SOUL’ CAPTIVATES! A marvelous tragicomedy, told by one astonishing actor. Wicked, tender, outrageous and profound!” Linda Winer, Newsday “A BLAZINGLY CHARISMATIC PERFORMER! Remarkable range and dexterity. ‘A […]
“WONDERFUL!
THEATRICAL GOLD!
Great humor and warmth, and stirringly poignant. A tour de force! A play with so much heart…and soul.”
Roma Torre, NY1
“’A BOY AND HIS SOUL’ CAPTIVATES!
A marvelous tragicomedy, told by one astonishing actor. Wicked, tender, outrageous and profound!”
Linda Winer, Newsday
“A BLAZINGLY CHARISMATIC PERFORMER!
Remarkable range and dexterity. ‘A Boy and His Soul’ is lively, likable and funny!
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
“A VIBRANT MEMOIR!
Domingo’s contagious enthusiasm is commanding and endearing — he has the touch of a poet!”
Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News
“EXHILARATING!
I was hooked!”
Frank Scheck, NY Post
“SO ENGAGING AND SO MUCH FUN!”
Sam Thielman, Variety
“A DELIGHTFUL, MELODY-DRENCHED SHOW!
A vivid tale of family filled with a generosity of spirit, and an optimism for what the future will bring.”
Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press
“JOY, PASSION, WARMTH AND WIT!
A loving tribute. A fine performance by Colman Domingo!”
New Yorker
“A KNOCKOUT!”
Michael Alan Connelly, New York Magazine
“COMPELLING! COLMAN DOMINGO IS DELIGHTFUL!”
Alexis Soloski, Village Voice
“TRULY FLIES AND DELIVERS GOOSEMBUMPS!
Theatergoers will be hard-pressed to not find themselves moved.”
Andy Propst, Theatermania
“CAPTIVATINGLY FRESH!
Colman Domingo populates the stage with a galaxy of characters. ‘A Boy and His Soul’ finds a solace, joy, and inspiration in soul music.”
David Sheward, Backstage
“ELECTRIC!
COLMAN DOMINGO IS A TRUE STAR —
Hilarious, warmly moving, remarkable verve. A journey into his heart and soul that you’ll happily stay lost in for as long as it lasts.”
Matthew Murray, Talkin’ Broadway
“EXPLOSIVE! HILARIOUS!
‘Soul’ belongs in the limited pantheon of worthwhile one-person autobiographical plays alongside Billy Crystal’s ‘700 Sundays’ and Chazz Palminteri’s ‘A Bronx Tale’.
Matt Windman, amNew York
“DOMINGO IS VIBRANT! ELECTRIC!
You can’t take your eyes off him!”
Jesse Oxfeld, The New York Observer
Artists
Tony Kelly
TONY KELLY (Director) Off-Broadway debut. Regional: 41 productions as co-founder and director of Thick Description in San Francisco, including the original production of A BOY AND HIS SOUL, world premieres by Octavio Solis (SANTOS & SANTOS and EL OTRO), Will Power (THE SEVEN), Yussef el-Guindi (BACK OF THE THROAT), David Conte (AMERICA TROPICAL and FIREBIRD MOTEL with libretti by Oliver Mayer and David Yezzi), and Oliver Mayer (JOE LOUIS BLUES), and West Coast premieres by Suzan-Lori Parks (THE AMERICA PLAY and VENUS), David Greenspan (DEAD MOTHER and 2 SAMUEL 11, ETC.) and Karen Hartman (ALICE: TALES OF A CURIOUS GIRL). Also: Jose Rivera’s CLOUD TECTONICS at the B Street Theatre, Sacramento, Oliver Mayer’s BLADE TO THE HEAT, Octavio Solis’s GIBRALTAR, Ibsen’s GHOSTS and Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA at the San Jose Stage Company, and other productions in Pittsburgh, San Jose, San Francisco, and the California and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals.
Colman Domingo
(Playwright) is the author of WILD WITH HAPPY(Dramatists Play Service), A BOY AND HIS SOUL (Oberon Books), UP JUMPED SPRINGTIME AND THE BROTHER(S). The artistic work of Mr. Domingo has been honored with Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations. His work has won the OBIE, Lucille Lortel, GLAAD, Connecticut Critics Circle, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle and Internet Theater Bloggers awards. Mr. Domingo has received fellowships and/or residencies from The Sundance Theater Lab, The People’s Light and Theater Company, and the Banff Playwrights Colony. Mr. Domingo is under commission from The American Conservatory Theater, People’s Light and Theater Company and The Public Theater. His plays have been produced at Vineyard Theatre, The Public, Theatreworks, Baltimore Centerstage, The Tricycle Theater (London), Brisbane Powerhouse/World Theater Festival (Australia), Theater Rhinoceros, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab/American Living Room Festival/HERE, and Thick Description Theater Collective. Dot was developed in part during a residency with New York Theater Workshop. Dot received its world premiere at The Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville. Mr. Domingo currently stars on the AMC original series “Fear the Walking Dead.” He has starred in the films Selma, Lincoln, The Butler and Birth of a Nation among others.
Rachel Hauck
(Set Design) Vineyard: PICKED, A BOY AND HIS SOUL, WHERE DO WE LIVE, THE FOURTH SISTER. Recent NY: GO BACK TO WHERE YOU ARE (Playwright’s Horizons); THIS WIDE NIGHT (Naked Angels); ORANGE, HAT AND GRACE (SoHo Rep); CREATuRE (Page 73/New Georges); ETHEL:TRUCKSTOP (BAM Next Wave); BEEBO BRINKER Ä(37 Arts), CATARACT (Womens Project). Recent Regional: AN ILIAD (McCarter). Resident scenic designer for the O’Neill Playwrights Festival since 2005.