Review: the Collaboration Doesn’t Work

Photo: Joan Marucs                                                                                

By Brian Scott Lipton

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it’s often more interesting. Indeed, one hopes the actual relationship between art world titans Andy Warhol and Jean Michel-Basquiat had more depth than is now being depicted in Anthony McCarten’s disappointing bioplay “The Collaboration,” on view at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre under Kwame Kwei-Armah’s workmanlike direction. Continue reading...