Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o. Three days earlier, Familiar, her funny, insightful play about a Zimbabwe family living in Minnesota, is opening Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons.

Full review at DC Theatre Scene

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Joby Earle, Joe Tippett, Myra Lucretia Taylor in Danai Gurira’s Familiar

Tamara Tunie

Joby Earle and Roslyn Ruff fiances in Danai Gurira’s Familiar

, Melanie Nicholls-King , Joby Earle, Roslyn Ruff

Ito Aghayere and Myra Lucretia Taylor

Myra Lucretia Taylor and Tamara Tunie

Myra Lucretia Taylor and Tamara Tunie

Harold Surratt, Tamara Tunie and Roslyn Ruff

Roslyn Ruff and Ito Aghayere

Harold Surratt and Joby Earle

Myra Lucretia Taylor and Melanie Nicholls-King

Ito Aghayere and Melanie Nicholls-King