School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play on Broadway tickets

Get School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play tickets on New York Theatre Guide to see this New York Times Critic's Pick back on stage. Following its acclaimed bow off Broadway, Tony Award nominee Jocelyn Bioh's play comes to Broadway. School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play in New York begins in September at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Winning a beauty pageant would change everything, right? That's what Paulina, the queen bee of Aburi Girls Boarding School, thinks in this cutting and hilarious comedy. Competing to be Miss Ghana, Paulina and her classmates will stop at nothing for the chance to have fame and fortune. But when an American transfer student shows up at their school, the contest gets even more competitive — and personal.

Wildly successful, this comedy has gone on to receive 75 regional productions and a United Kingdom premiere in 2023. Now, audiences can see School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play on Broadway.

In his Critic's Pick review, Jesse Green for The New York Times said the play is a "gleeful African makeover of an American genre." Tackling colorism and how beauty standards differ culture to culture, the New York Times said Bioh "brings the audience to an unexpectedly ambivalent conclusion about the morality of cultural dominance. In it, Americans may realize that, as far as Africa is concerned, we are the mean girls."

This production reunites Bioh with the director of her last hit, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding: Tony nominee Whitney White stages this play making its Broadway debut. An Obie Award winner, White is known for her strong command of new plays, as with her recent credit, Liberation. Tickets to School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play are now available!