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Emerson College professor Robbie McCauley wrote and performs in her one-woman show, "Sugar," presented by ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage. The theater artist takes you on her life's journey from Southern comfort foods to new York's '60s and '70s avant-garde theater, and explores the pains and triumphs of living with diabetes. -- June Wulff, Glboe Staff
Robbie McCauley's solo show about diabetes and race is a lyrical and stirring journey through the world she found and the world she made, in the theater and elsewhere, while coping with a condition that sometimes sapped her energy but never her spirit. - Don Aucoin, Globe Staff
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The autobiographical tale Robbie McCauley tells in “Sugar’’ is bursting with complications and vivid details about how this distinctive personality has grappled with the world she found and the world she made, in the theater and elsewhere, while coping with a condition that often sapped her energy. (Full review)
Emerson College performing arts professor Robbie McCauley has had a glittering performance career of her own, stretching back to the 1970s, when she was in the original Broadway production of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.’’ Now, in her new one-woman show, premiering at ArtsEmerson, McCauley strikes an autobiographical note. (Full review)