Is God Is / What to Send Up When It Goes Down

Harris had taken her artistic forebear's Ntozake Shange's loose-woven theatrical fabric and stretched into something tighter and crisper, capable of resounding like a struck drumhead. --Helen Shaw Time Out New York on What to Send Up When it Goes Down A rich, funny, unnerving, exhilarating gold mine. --Sara Holden New York Magazine on Is God Is [An] excellent revenge fantasy...furious and incandescent. --Helen Shaw Time Out New York on Is God Is A snarly new master of high-octane carnage has risen into view. And she--yes, she--is putting her own audacious stamp on that most venerable of pop genres...Is God Is sees fit to bring down the house. --Ben Brantley The New York Times on Is God is What to Send Up is not derivative, but it is a worthy inheritor of a couple of different strands of socially-critical theater. This is theater that sets out to do something: be that heal, expose, purge, condemn, motivate, or all of the above. --Alison Walls Exeunt Magazine on What to Send Up When it Goes Down If What to Send Up... is a receptacle for the rage that is part and parcel of life for many African-Americans, a piece that encourages its audience to respond with cathartic yells and tears, it is also shaped by a rarefied theatrical intelligence. You may not be entirely aware of its artistry until after it's over, or realize that the show you've seen is also a very good play. --Ben Brantley New York Times on What to Send Up When it Goes Down