{"id":356550,"date":"2026-09-25T09:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356550\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:39:02","slug":"see-photos-of-school-girls-or-the-african-mean-girls-play-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356550\/","title":{"rendered":"See photos of ‘School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play’ on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jocelyn Bioh’s award-winning comedy play is making its Broadway premiere with a cast including Den\u00e9e Benton, Jasmine Amy Rogers, Patina Miller, and more.<\/p>\n

School picture day is here: New photos are available of School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play<\/a> on Broadway! Jocelyn Bioh’s award-winning comedy, directed by Whitney White, follows the drama between Ghanaian boarding school students over a pageant that might decide their future.<\/p>\n

The Broadway cast includes Lucia Aremu as Ama, Tony Award nominee Den\u00e9e Benton<\/a> as Paulina, Tony winner Patina Miller<\/a> as Eloise Amponsah, Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominee Erin Morton as Nana, Nia Otchere-Sarfo as Gifty, Jordan Rice as Mercy, Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers<\/a> as Ericka, and Obie Award winner Heather Alicia Simms as Headmistress Francis. Many, like the play itself, are making their Broadway debuts, so you won’t want to miss this class of fresh talent.<\/p>\n

Take a sneak peek at them on stage below, and get tickets to see School Girls before its limited run ends November 1.<\/p>\n

Get School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

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Get School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play on Broadway. (Photos by Matthew Murphy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jocelyn Bioh’s award-winning comedy play is making its Broadway premiere with a cast including Den\u00e9e Benton, Jasmine Amy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-356550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}