Charlayne Woodard's luminous show is a hilarious litany on the joys of children in our lives.
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Perhaps the best word to describe Charlayne Woodard as a performer is silken. When she crosses the stage, it's as though her body is propelled by a breeze. As lithe as a dancer, she has a voice to match, crisp yet caressing, as she channels the gallery of characters in The Night Watcher — parents, and particularly their children, who came to know Woodard as "Auntie."
Read full review here. Only a few anecdotes into Charlayne Woodard’s “The Night Watcher,” it’s hard to shake the notion that you’re in the presence of one of the finest dramatic monologists in America today. It’s not just the depth of her thesping skills that gets you — the versatile voice, committed physicalization, mobile face and utterly winning smile — but also her unflinching willingness to recount incidents that don’t always end happily or make her look good. Beautifully helmed by Daniel Sullivan and expressively designed, “The Night Watcher” is a cinch for further exposure, including broadcast.
Read full review here. Charlayne Woodard’s manner is so disarmingly anecdotal in her effervescent solo show, “The Night Watcher,” that it takes a moment to realize that this isn’t our best girlfriend sharing confidences from the stage of the Kirk Douglas Theatre but a performer whose luminous talent exceeds her limited stardom.
Read full review here. A best friend, advisor, confidant and sage to the many young people for whom she is an auntie or a godmother, Charlayne Woodard pays homage in "The Night Watcher" to the life-enhancing intimacy that can exist between children and the loving extended family of "other" adults who are not related. Told with penetrating grace and candor, Woodard beautifully weaves together stories of the ordinary and extraordinary ways she has mentored the children in her life.
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