Review: The Ghosts of ‘Good Bones’ and ‘Yellow Face’ on Broadway

There are four very good actors on stage in James Ijames’ excellent play, Good Bones (Public Theater, to Oct. 27)—but the star of the show is the kitchen that gradually reveals itself to the audience from behind protective sheets. It is the soft grey, blandly, suffocatingly chic centerpiece of a home renovation of a well-off Black couple, Aisha (This Is Us’ Susan Kelechi Watson) and Travis (Mamoudou Athie).

That renovation is being efficiently masterminded by Black contractor Earl (Khris Davis)...