Six translations of Uncle Vanya at the same time. Absurdism ensues. Loren Noveck reviews.
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9 January 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Is This a Room at The Kitchen
The Kitchen ⋄ January 4-13
By Loren Noveck
Ripped from the headlines, Is This a Room uses an interrogation to interrogate the nature of power.
7 January 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein at Under the Radar Festival
Public Theater ⋄ January 3-12
By Loren Noveck
Sheer magic with shadows: Loren Noveck reviews Manual Cinema’s latest genre-bender.
11 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre ⋄ November 19-January 6
By Loren Noveck
The tragicomic, or comitragic, epic journey of a woman who made herself once, and now has to do it all over again. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Noura at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ November 27-December 30
By Loren Noveck
In Noura, a refugee lives in exile from herself, trying to reconcile her past and her present. Loren Noveck reviews.
20 November 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Hard Problem at Lincoln Center
Mitzi Newhouse Theatre ⋄ October 25-January 6
By Loren Noveck
Tom Stoppard interrogates whether a thermostat has consciousness potential, and why we have consciousness at all. Loren Noveck reviews.
16 November 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Natural Shocks at WP Theater
Women’s Project Theater ⋄ October 28-November 25
By Loren Noveck
A shocking twist can’t save a paper-thin script. Loren Noveck reviews.
15 November 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Wild Goose Dreams at the Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ October 30-December 16
By Loren Noveck
An ambitious, complex, at times unwieldy play that dramatizes the relationship between humans and the digital sphere as much as the relationships among its characters. Loren Noveck reviews.
16 October 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Fireflies at the Atlantic Theater
Atlantic Theater Company ⋄ September 26-November 11
By Loren Noveck
A nuanced portrait of a troubled marriage against the less-nuanced backdrop of a troubled world. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 October 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Black Light at Greenwich House Theater
Greenwich House ⋄ September 24-December 31
By Loren Noveck
Jomama Jones invites us to imagine our way out of these troubled times. Loren Noveck reviews.