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Gordon Cox, Variety
Thu, 02/26/2015 - 8:00pm

Going large was the right move for this transfer of “An Octoroon,” Soho Rep’s madly popular, 2014 OBIE Award-winning hit show. Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ subversively funny alternative version of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama about forbidden love in the Antebellum South proves a surprisingly good fit for Theater for a New Audience.

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