Stick Fly

"BRILLIANT! ENDLESSLY FASCINATING! Acutely observant, laugh-out-loud funny, and complicated as only real human stories can be. Cause to shout for joy!" — The Boston Globe

"TOP-NOTCH AND MEMORABLE! A complex. funny, moving play from big-brained playwright Lydia R. Diamond." — Boston Herald

"AN ASTOUNDING ACHIEVEMENT! All My Sons for a new generation. Director Kenny Leon and a cast that's a joy from top to bottom make Diamond's script sing." —TAB Newspaper

"Stick Fly is a great dramatic experience. A MUST SEE!" — Berkshire Fine Arts

"Great heart and humor! A sterling cast directed with precision and playfulness by Kenny Leon." — Cape Cod Times

"FUNNY and PROVOCATIVE!" — The Washington Examiner

"Lydia R. Diamond is one of Boston's FINEST playwrights" — The Boston Globe

"VIVACIOUS COMIC PERFORMANCES!" — The Washington Post

"Stick Fly leaps with flinty dialogue and a plot laced with hidden secrets and shocking revelations. A refreshingly vital story about relationships and richly complex characters. Although race and class are pivotal issues here, the drama is human." — Variety

"Stick Fly is an exhilarating evening in the theater. You get the feeling playwright Lydia Diamond is going to end up her generation's Lorraine Hansberry or August Wilson. Her stuff is — well, exhilarating." — The Princeton Packet (September 17, 2007)

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  Lydia R. Diamond on "On Point"
  A conversation about Stick Fly and more with playwright Lydia R. Diamond and members of the cast. - Listen to the broadcast of "On Point"

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  Lydia R. Diamond on Basic Black
  A conversation on the relevance of Black History Month and a look at class divisions within the African American community
  Watch the entire video
  from WGBH

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  In Boston, a New Focus on the Local
  Before Peter DuBois even began his duties here in 2008 as artistic director of the Huntington Theater Company, the city’s largest, he had dinner with one of the area’s most prominent young playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond, to discuss ways of fostering relationships between the Huntington and local writers....
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• Stick Fly could put playwright Lydia R. Diamond in August Company
  Hailed as a rising star of the theater, Diamond has won acclaim for her latest work, Stick Fly, in regional productions from Los Angeles to Atlanta....
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• Pride and Privilege — And Prejudice — On Stage
  In U.S. dramas, African-Americans are often limited to portraying impoverished characters, like slaves or street thugs. So Lydia Diamond wrote a play about the opposite: An extremely wealthy black family vacationing on Martha's Vineyard....
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  on NPR

• An Interview with Lydia Diamond
  Playwright Lydia Diamond’s work has been performed across the United States and in the U.K. Recently commissioned by McCarter Theatre Center and by Steppenwolf Theatre, Lydia has won numerous awards for her work, including Stick Fly and Voyeurs de Venus....
  Read the entire interview courtesy of the McCarter Theatre

• African Americans on Martha's Vineyard
  Martha’s Vineyard. An island off the coast of Cape Cod—first, fishing village and whaling port, now, a summer resort playground. The Kennedys and the Clintons vacation here. So do Spike Lee, Vernon Jordan and Henry Louis Gates....
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• The Sharp Eye of Lydia Diamond
  “Complicated black folks with contemporary problems.” That’s the way one character in Lydia Diamond’s new play, Stick Fly, sarcastically describes the first novel penned by another. But the one-liner, minus the sarcasm, is a propos for describing Diamond’s own growing body of work....
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