‘Triple Threat’ and ‘Just For Us’ Reviews: Two About One
metroweekly.comTriple Threat (★★★★★). For James T. Lane, it’s a double entendre and the title of his phenomenal, autobiographical, Off-Broadway solo play.
From an early age, the gay, black South Philadelphia native churned with talent.So much, in fact, that his mother enrolled him in a magnet school for the performing arts.
It would lead to a European Tour of Fame, but not before drug and alcohol addiction nearly dropped the curtain on his life.It’s rare to see a one-person piece that takes us from the extreme merriments of song and dance to the deep, dark corridors of despair and back again.
Through the embodiment of several characters, Lane recounts his story and reveals his all-too-true and traumatic journey.Little is left to the imagination, but this is what makes it so authentically edgy and raw.
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