Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Amm(i)gone, a production by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with ...
The ancient classic “Antigone” is rich with moral quandary, as the titular character nobly faces the prospect of death to do what she believes is right: honoring her brother with a proper burial. But ...
Theater maker, director, and performer Adil Mansoor explores family tension, queerness, and faith in Amm(i)gone, now playing at Theater Mu. The one-person play is an interpretation of Sophocles's ...
The photo is of Adil Mansoor when he was a child, in Pakistan. The scene was a family celebration, and a relative, on a lark, dressed the boy in a fine women’s gown. The adult Mansoor regards the ...
The experience of a mother and son's bonding over an ancient Greek play has become a play itself. Mansoor said that while he deeply cares about his mother, he can struggle to connect with her. However ...
"Breath of Truth" is a 2020 quilt by Tina Williams Brewer. Fiber artist Tina Williams Brewer and theater artist Adil Mansoor are this year’s winners of the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement awards ...
Adil Mansoor is a Virgo Pakistani-American theater queerdo. His mother is an Aquarian hijabi Quranic scholar. Since she discovered Adil’s queerness online, their once-close bond now needs rescue. In ...
Creator and performer Adil Mansoor invites his Pakistani mother to translate Antigone into Urdu as means of exploring the tensions between family and faith. Should he keep his queerness buried from ...