Photo by Joan Marcus
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Dispiritingly, this could serve as the through-line for Shaina Taub‘s excellent new musical, Suffs, running through May 5 at The Public Theater. In bringing to light the impassioned struggle for women’s right to vote, the musical also reveals how much ground we still have left to gain more than a century later.
There is much to love in this powerhouse production. For starters, it boasts an all-woman and non-binary cast, including Broadway stars Phillipa Soo of Hamilton and Come From Away’s Jenn Colella. Ms. Taub does most of the show’s heavy-hitting as youth agitator Alice Paul, who bucks against not only misogynist-in-chief Woodrow Wilson (Grace McLean) but the old guard led by Carrie Chapman Catt (Colella).
Winnie McCroy 