newjerseynewsroom.com

1. REVIEW: 'Hurt Village' lives up to its title
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... Cookie (Joaquina Kalukango) is being raised by his resentful former girlfriend (Marsha Stephanie Blake) and his cantankerous grandmother (Tonya Pinkins) who holds down a subsistence job. Their hardscrabble ...

2. REVIEW: Taste ‘Milk Like Sugar’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... by Tonya Pinkins, with a cigarette always dangling from her curled lip. Their constant chatter about deluxe brands of phones, clothes and accessories reveal how disconnected these teens are from their ...

3. REVIEW: ‘Measure for Measure’ proves not entirely a pleasure
(Entertainment/Movies)

... a venerable lord, Reg Rogers as a dissolute blabbermouth and a red-wigged Tonya Pinkins as a bordello madam offer solid performances. Carson Elrod invests a pimp with surly vitality. Lucas Caleb Rooney ...

4. REVIEW: ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ looks swell
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... who charmingly portrays the King first as a gallantly dying gentleman and later as a surrogate father to Helena. A bright-eyed Tonya Pinkins is nicely regal and anxious as Bertram’s aristocratic mama. ...