Billie Holiday Theater November 2019
"WHAT'S THE STORY?"
...is the thread that runs through the life and work of James Sheldon. From his time as a newspaper and magazine reporter, when he sought to “get the scoop”and tell the story as it had just happened, to a long stint as a stock market investor, trying to predict the story of a company’s financial future, James has always been a storyteller.
Since 2007, as a playwright with nine professional productions of his work, including two in London and one Off-Broadway, he has been writing his own stories.
Reparations- Gloucester Stage, MA
September 2021
Reparations, which first premiered at The Billie Holliday Theater in Brooklyn, was revived by the Gloucester Stage Company, at the Windhover Performing Arts Center, MA.
Reviews Gloucester Stage Production
Gloucester Stage Wraps Outdoor Season with Thought-Provoking ‘Reparations’
Review by Michael Hoban, New England TheaterMirror.net 9/8/2021 If you’re considering seeing the Gloucester Stage production of...
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The Revelations Come Fast and Furious In ‘Reparations’
By Jacquinn Sinclair Boston Globe correspondent, Updated September 10, 2021 In Gloucester Stage Company’s “Reparations,” Reg Ambrose, a...
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Reparations Unloads Surprises But Avoids Moral
Keith Powers, Correspondent at Metro West Daily News 9/10/21 Treachery, bombshell disclosures and unexpected confrontations - James...
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Photos by Jason Grow
Reviews : Billy Holiday Theatre
November 2019
Audelco Awards
Winner - "Best Play 2020"
Photos by Dex R. Jones
* Audelco Awards honor excellence in black theater.
Heart-Tugging Production, ‘Reparations,’ Makes World Debut
by C. Zawadi Morris, BK Reader I’m going to get straight to the point: Run, go see James Sheldon’s “Reparations,” showing now at The...
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"Reparations" at the Billie
Review by Jonathan Kalb. James Sheldon’s Reparations is a new play about racial grievance, guilt and retribution in America that, oddly...
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‘Reparations’ demonstrates the theft of innocence
Review: Amsterdam News Linda Armstrong 11/14/19 The Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn has always proven itself to be a treasured,...
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Reparations: Revenge, Retribution, Regret, & Resurrection
Sandi Durell's Theater Pizzazz. Review by Michael Tingley A tall, wooden sailboat sits on the coffee table of a meticulously...
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In ‘Reparations,’ Righting Wrongs Comes With a Cost
By Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Times 11/6/2019 James Sheldon’s play examines what happens when trauma is used to material ends. The new...
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Reparations- Show-Score Reviews
Show Score are honest reviews by theater goers. Here's a sample of what they say about the new play by James Sheldon at the Billie...
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"4 Stars - Pugnacious, provocative writing"
— Sam Marlowe, The Times. Review of Shiverman
May 2012
News
Winner Best Play- 2020 Audelco Awards
Winner Best Play- 2021 Broadway World Boston
Reparations is coming to New England in September 2021. Click on the post to learn more.
Last week I did an interview for WBGO radio, along with my director and lead actor, about my new play, Reparations. The interview highlights the controversies embedded in the play.
You can listen to the interview by clicking on the post.
J. Sheldon. 10/28/2019
The Plays
James has written eight plays since 2007, revealing the mythic in the mundane in a variety of settings from a remote Pacific island to the former Soviet Union to a secret federal facility for notorious white-collar criminals.
His plays have been produced in London (“A Model For Mankind” and “Shiverman”), Off-Broadway (“Reparations”) and in the northeastern United States.
If you'd like to learn more, feel free to contact James with questions, comments or ideas.
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