This multimedia take on Nick Payne’s play by a Chinese company offers an elegant and quietly compelling production. Alison Walls reviews.
Off-Broadway
9 January 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Grey Rock at Under the Radar
Public Theater ⋄ 8th -19th January 2020
By Joey Sims
A Palestinian dreamer’s rocket launch to the moon makes for a wonderful premise, but it drags in spots and leans on cliché. Joey Sims reviews.
5 January 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Fear in the Western World at The Doxsee
The Doxsee ⋄ 2nd -19th January 2020
By Nicole Serratore
Ambitious gun culture satire sometimes misses the target. Nicole Serratore reviews.
26 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Judgment Day at Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue Armory ⋄ 5 December - 10 January
By Lane Williamson
Park Avenue Armory presents a commissioned work from Richard Jones, director of 2017’s smash production of “The Hairy Ape”, but the equation of that success doesn’t add up here. Lane Williamson reviews.
16 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: All I Want for Christmas is Attention at Town Hall
Town Hall Theatre ⋄ 11 December
By Richard Patterson
Drag superstars BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon ring in the holidays as only they can. Richard Patterson reviews.
14 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Straights at JACK
JACK ⋄ December 5-21
By Loren Noveck
A #selfie-filled road trip through a broken America. Loren Noveck reviews.
12 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Thin Place at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 15 November - 29 December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan A. Ramirez is sufficiently spooked by Lucas Hnath’s new play that looks at one woman’s connection to the space between life and death.
12 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: David Rasche at Feinstein’s/54 Below
54 Below ⋄ 4 December
By Joey Sims
Sometimes a stage flub can stick with you. Joey Sims had such an experience with New York theatre stalwart David Rasche in 2013 and again in Rasche’s cabaret debut at Feinstein’s/54 Below.
10 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven at the Linda Gross Theater
Linda Gross Theater ⋄ 15th November – 29th December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan Ramirez finds Stephen Adly Guirgis’s newest play “intensely watchable” and “refreshingly nonjudgmental.”
9 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Sorceress at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Museum of Jewish Heritage ⋄ 1 December - 29 December
By Jordan G. Teicher
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene follows up their acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof with this enjoyable Cinderella riff that Tevye and his daughters may actually have seen. Jordan Teicher reviews.