Jacquinn Sinclair
Performing Arts Writer
Jacquinn Sinclair is a freelance arts and entertainment writer whose work has appeared in Performer Magazine, The Philadelphia Tribune and Exhale Magazine. She is a lover of music, food, art and travel.
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Two local productions take audiences on very different high-seas journeys
DNAWORKS’ world premiere production of “The Secret Sharer" centers queer joy while SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Swept Away” is a much darker story about a shipwrecked whaling crew fighting for their...
August Wilson's 'Gem of the Ocean' holds vestiges of the past, but lacks tension
Presented by Actors' Shakespeare Project, the show follows Citizen Barlow who has recently arrived in post-emancipation Pittsburgh in seek of salvation. He meets the over 200-year-old Aunt Ester, who sends...
'The Wash' reclaims the forgotten fight of Black washerwomen
The Front Porch Arts Collective will perform staged readings of Kelundra Smith's new play. It draws on the 1881 Atlanta Washerwomen's Strike, one of the first major labor actions led...
Actress Patrice Jean-Baptiste shines in 'Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous'
At Lyric Stage, the actress plays an aging artist wrestling with her own anxieties, insecurities and the decisions she’s made — good and bad — about her work. Theater critic...
11 theater productions to see this spring
This season, local theaters are offering a collection of stories that highlight important historical figures, reimagine old tales with new vigor, and highlight the importance of starting over after a...
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'Stereophonic' needs more music
Stereophonic puts you inside a '70s California studio where a five-person rock band records, fights and flirts. The brilliant set and songs shine, but the three-hour drama leaves you craving...
'The Antiquities' grapples with technology’s power
The threat of humanity’s extinction anchors SpeakEasy Stage Company’s thought-provoking production, writes theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair. At the center of the play is a museum of Late Human Antiquities, which...
A tale of roses and thorns in 'We Had A World' at the Huntington
The autobiographical play by Joshua Harmon tells the complicated story of his cultured, alcoholic grandmother. She asked Harmon to write the play, and not to hold back. Critic Jacquinn Sinclair...
A new play centers a queer Cambodian American teen in Lowell
At Merrimack Repertory Theatre, the world premiere of playwright Vichet Chum’s “Kween" follows a teenage, queer, spoken-word artist whose father was deported. “I'm interested in is showing all the parts...
'The Moderate' makes the invisible work of content moderators sharply visible
The play at Central Square Theater focuses on the people who monitor the darkest parts of the internet, and the toll it takes on their lives. Critic Jacquinn Sinclair writes...