The Scottsboro Boys

Sean Bradford, Christian Dante White, Cody Ryan Wise and Company

“The show’s look is stylishly severe, with a stark, footlighted set that makes resourceful use of simple silver chairs, configured into courtrooms and cells. (Beowulf Boritt is the scenic designer.)”

~Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“The spareness is matched in the design choices. Beowulf Boritt's set is simply a bunch of chairs and a couple of planks, endlessly regrouped into different shapes to represent everything from a boxcar to a prison cell to a courtroom with brisk efficiency.”

~David Rooney, Daily Variety

"With little more than ragged costumes, a handful of straight-back chairs and a few planks and curtains (the minimalist costumes and set are by Toni-Leslie James and Beowulf Boritt, respectively), ), Stroman fills the tiny Vineyard stage with razor-sharp vaudeville dancing.”

~Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg News

“The production, guided with elegant simplicity by director-choreographer Susan Stroman, unfolds with rapid fluidity on a stage that scenic designer Beowulf Boritt outfits with a dozen chairs and a few boards, which are inventively rearranged to represent a variety of locations.”

~Andy Propst, Theatremania