‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ Review: A Shop Where Everybody … – The New York Times

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A group of women sitting on stage in front of a curtain during 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' performance.

Nothing says comedy to me like hot pink, and pink doesn’t get much hotter than the pink of the house curtain that greets you at the beginning of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” by Jocelyn Bioh. In the pale and staid Samuel J. Friedman Theater, a fuchsia drop depicting dozens of elaborately woven hairstyles — micro braids, cornrows, “kinky twists” and more — tells you, along with the bouncy Afro-pop music, to prepare for laughter.

That will come in abundance, but don’t in the meantime ignore Jaja’s storefront: gray and…