Celine Song’s new play mixes brutal truth, barnstorming set pieces, and a bit of magic. Joey Sims reviews.
Off-Broadway
5 March 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Coal Country at Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ 18th February - 5th April 2020
By Jordan G. Teicher
Potent, vivid documentary theater about 2010 West Virginia mine disaster with music by Steve Earle. Jordan G. Teicher reviews.
4 March 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Perplexed at Manhattan Theatre Club
New York City Center - Stage I ⋄ February 11-March 29
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan Ramirez finds no joy in this “lifeless production” of Richard Greenberg’s new play, with a “dire lack of dramatic tension.”
4 March 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Suicide Forest at A.R.T./New York Theatres
ART/New York ⋄ 25th February 25 - 15th March 2020
By Jordan G. Teicher
Haruna Lee’s surrealism, satire, and comedy serve a gut-wrenching play on gender, sexuality, immigration and trauma.
1 March 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Hot Wing King at Signature Theatre
The Pershing Square Signature Center ⋄ February 11-March 22
By Patrick Maley
Katori Hall returns to Memphis and brings the dialect of the city to simmering life in her new play. Patrick Maley reviews.
27 February 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Unsinkable Molly Brown at Abrons Arts Center
Abrons Arts Center ⋄ February 8-March 22
By Joey Sims
Beth Malone shines in the title role, but Joey Sims wishes this production were a little more “actively weird.”
27 February 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Dana H. at the Vineyard Theatre
Vineyard Theatre ⋄ Through March 29
By Lane Williamson
A verbatim play about the abduction of Lucas Hnath’s mother raises questions of authorship, while still delivering quite a wallop of a story. Lane Williamson reviews.
25 February 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: We’re Gonna Die at the Tony Kiser Theater
Tony Kiser Theater ⋄ February 4-March 22
By Loren Noveck
Big, bold directorial choices don’t enhance Young Jean Lee’s intimate musical. Loren Noveck reviews.
25 February 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: All the Natalie Portmans at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater
Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ 24 February-29 March
By Juan A. Ramirez
A young queer person immerses herself in fantasies with the film actress Natalie Portman in a new play by C.A. Johnson. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.
25 February 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Tumacho at the Connelly Theater
Connelly Theater ⋄ 17 February-14 March
By Dan O'Neil
Ethan Lipton’s enjoyable Western has some fuzziness around the edges that made our critic think about the films of Jim Jarmusch. Dan O’Neil reviews.