Following its critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run, School Girls now makes its highly anticipated Broadway debut! Written by Tony Award-nominated Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Tony Award-nominated Whitney White, this new staging brings Bioh back to the company after the success of Jaja's African Hair Braiding.

School Girls is a comedic play that explores the social ranks amongst young girls at an exclusive Ghanaian boarding school. The play dives into the inner worlds of teenage girls and how they interact and socialise with each other during the highs and lows of growing up.

Critics have unanimously fallen in love with Broadway's latest addition - take a look below to find out why!

Reviews

The New York Times

"What we do have is marvelous. And Broadway does give the play an appropriate magnitude - the vast room matches Paulina's operatic behavior. The scale of the actors, too, allows White to create exaggerations and grand gestures where the original production (directed by Rebecca Taichman) preferred a smaller, subtler, close-up magic."

Vulture

"When it premiered at MCC in 2017 it was fresh, savvy, and funny. Almost a decade later in its Broadway debut, it's lost none of that, and White's production perhaps inevitably given the arc of those passing years adds sharpness to its cruelties and weight to its grief." 

Theatrely

"Ericka's arrival sets off a chaotic chain of events by turns uproariously funny, stingingly painful and, for anyone who lived through teenage bullying, cruelly familiar. Yet Bioh always keeps her tone two or three notches above naturalism, allowing the audience guilt-free enjoyment in reliving all these excruciating memories. It's a tricky balance, one that White negotiates expertly for this high-energy Broadway revival."

The Guardian

"This is a production expert at making one smile. For what is clearly one of the past decade's most loved plays, this Broadway debut is a beautiful homecoming."

Deadline

"Bioh, perfectly assisted by her sympatico director Whitney White and a no-weak-link cast,has done something quite amazing with this comedy-drama, opening tonight on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in a first-rate Manhattan Theatre Club production. Bioh takes on the tropes and dramatic conventions of high school claustrophobia, its rebellions and savageries and tendernesses so familiar from ancestors like the franchise that gives this play its subtitle and right up through the newcomer that called John Proctor a villain, that we can only trust a writer of her depth and skills (she wrote Jaja's African Hair Braiding, after all) to find a new path through the well-trod turf."

New York Theatre Guide

"School Girls is at its most fun when all the girls are trading Bioh's snappy dialogue back and forth like an expert game of pattycake. In scenes like these, there's a frenetic yet coordinated energy to White's direction that feels like acelebration of pure, unadulterated girlhood. Together, the cast is an ensemble of consummate comedians with impeccable timing. But the slower, lower-energy scenes hit just as hard. Love and pride for Ghana is something all the characters feel deeply. But it's how to represent Ghana on the world stage or rather, whose skin color is best to do so that leads to the ultimate heartbreak of this story."