A Pulitzer Prize-winning play is now onstage at Dallas Theater Center! Eboni Booth's Primary Trust -a story of friendship, healing, and small chances- is now in performances at Bryant Hall. At the helm is Sasha Maya Ada, who just checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to tell us all about the production.

“Directed by Sasha Maya Ada, Stage West’s Marjorie Prime was moving and creative…the staging was deftly executed, the acting top notch, and the imaginative finale was moving.”

“Listen to how she says “pecans,” and you’ll know immediately that Sasha is not a native Texan. But the Bronx-born and South Carolina-raised director, actor, educator, and SMU graduate is nonetheless deeply committed to making the Dallas-Fort Worth theater industry better than it was when she moved here in 2012.”

“I came out over the pandemic. I identify as a queer, Black, Afro-Latina woman, and that inherently impacts how I work. I didn’t know that my queerness impacted my steps along the way, but I can see that in the main character. She’s also having this rebirth in the center of a disaster….”

“Critical to the success of this show are the astute direction by one of the Dallas area's finest directors, Sasha Maya Ada, and the uniformly excellent four person cast.”

“Directed with explosive concentration, the 90-minute play gives voice to people caught up in a justice system too mechanical to encompass the flesh and blood human suffering it was designed to alleviate.”

“Teatro Dallas’ surreal ‘Cloud Tectonics’ is a standout. Infused with that kind of ironic humor, accompanied by despair, melancholy and the uncanny, Teatro Dallas’ understated rendering of Rivera’s Twilight Zone-like script from 1995 is one of the best productions of the 2023-24 North Texas theater season.”

“Jordan Harrison’s 2014 Marjorie Prime at Stage West (set in the year 2053) is directed with a tender lightness in the company’s reconfigurable “Evie” theater space—for this show arranged as theater-in-the-round. Director Ada uses the impressive revolving stage exquisitely, even thematically. Marjorie Prime is beautifully produced, and it’s fun to see a lovely, positive use of much-maligned AI presented so entertainingly and thoughtfully. “

“Pass Over captures the anguish of [Kitch and Moses]. Nwandu uses poetry, humor, drama, and surrealism in a unique blend to tell this story. Director Ada’s vision honors Nwandu’s play and makes it into an evening of riveting theater.”

“It starts with a bang and a drum roll…everybody in the sold-out house whistles and shouts. We’re off and cheering at the gaudy, gritty, and immersive show, jointly produced by The Lost Boy Presents and AMOC, and directed by Sasha Maya Ada with a daring realism.”