With this new touring production from Ericka Nicole Malone, author of
You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, the actor-writer-director stakes a claim to the gospel-play circuit that made an industry of Tyler Perry. Bolstered by the presence of two marquee names — Robin Givens (
A Rage in Harlem, Boomerang) and Leon (
Cool Runnings, Cliffhanger) — her latest serves up a morality tale about a long-suffering salon owner and the two-timing husband who’s stepping out with her best friend while getting in dutch with the neighborhood gangster. There’ll be music, there’ll be testifying, there’ll be an ending that metes out punishment and reward, and there’ll be two shows Saturday and Sunday. And whatever you do, don’t take the relationship advice offered at deartyrone.com.
— Jim Ridley