Broadway now has its first play set entirely in Ghana.
Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play begins its official Broadway run at Manhattan Theatre Club on September 28, following previews that started September 8.
Set in 1986 at Aburi Girls’ Boarding School, the comedy uses a Miss Ghana pageant to examine colorism, Western beauty standards, class, and adolescent identity.
The limited engagement runs at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre through November 1