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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In 'Kufre n' Quay,' two young friends bridge cultural divides
In Mfoniso Udofia’s play, a boy from Nigeria befriends a girl from America, and the two work together to overcome their differences. The heartwarming show is in its world premiere...
Buddy comedy 'The Garbologists' highlights the importance of connection
In playwright Lindsay Joelle's comedy at Gloucester Stage Company, two sanitation workers at transitional points in their lives bond while on the job. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair reviews the entertaining...
Golyak and Arlekin bring their powerful, Holocaust-related 'Our Class' to the Calderwood Pavilion
After taking New York by storm, including four Lucille Lortel awards, "Our Class" sets up shop in the Calderwood Pavilion for a brief run. Jacquinn Sinclair reviews.
16 theater productions to see this summer
WBUR theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair shares the productions she's looking forward to this season, which tackle everything from food insecurity to unlikely friendships and familial bonds.
'Mrs. Warren's Profession' isn't so shocking in present day
George Bernard Shaw’s 1893 play about a powerful, wealthy woman who made her money in brothels doesn’t hold the same weight in present day. And despite the strong cast, Central...
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Actors' Shakespeare Project and The Huntington win multiple Elliot Norton Awards
Central Square Theater and Front Porch Arts Collective also took home multiple wins for the joint production of the musical "Next to Normal," and Mfoniso Udofia's Ufot Family Cycle was...
A.R.T.'s 'Two Strangers' is a fun, musical rom-com
The show focuses on a happy-go-lucky Brit and a New Yorker thrown together by their relatives' impending nuptials. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair says the great acting and singing make it...
An art exhibit honors the historical Black community of Walden Woods
Before Thoreau's "life in the woods," there was Brister Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who won his freedom serving in the Revolutionary War. Freeman and the Brister's Hill community serve...
'Kimberly Akimbo' delivers hilarious and heartwarming coming-of-age story
The Tony Award-winning musical follows a teenager with a rare disease that makes her age faster than most. "The extremely talented cast, coupled with a script full of comedy, criminal...
Dialing up a brighter future in ‘Utopian Hotline’
Theater Mitu's show — a co-production with the Museum of Science and ArtsEmerson — is a lovely theatrical meditation, writes theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair. Viewers are asked to imagine a...