Daniel Krane felt the beating heart of this show, but it left him craving more love poems and less enigma.
Off-Broadway
21 March 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Life at New York City Center
New York City Center ⋄ 16 March-20 March
By Lane Williamson
Billy Porter directs and revises a concert production of this 1997 musical with varying degrees of success, but a standout performance by Ledisi is worth any bumps along the way. Lane Williamson reviews.
19 March 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Book of Mountains and Seas at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ March 15-20, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Basil Twist’s simple, haunting puppets embody ancient Chinese myths. Loren Noveck reviews.
17 March 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: what you are now at Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre ⋄ March 10-April 3, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Exposition bogs down a play about the neuroscience of memory and the persistence of trauma. Loren Noveck reviews.
10 March 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Chinese Lady at the Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ February 23-April 10, 2022
By Daniel Krane
Lloyd Suh’s comedy exposes the hollow promise at the root of shallow theatrical representation. Daniel Krane reviews.
26 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Wolf Play at Soho Rep
Soho Rep ⋄ February 4 through March 20, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Hansol Jung’s new play at Soho Rep asks what it means to make a family, and how we live when that goes wrong. Loren Noveck reviews.
21 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Merchant of Venice at Theatre for a New Audience
Theatre for a New Audience ⋄ 5 February-6 March
By Patrick Maley
Director Arin Arbus digs into Shakespeare’s play to show us, anew, what’s been there all along. Patrick Maley reviews.
15 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Space Dogs at MCC
Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ January 25-March 13, 2022
By Juliet Hindell
Juliet Hindell reviews an inventively wacky two-man musical about the unsung dog heroes at the heart of the Russian space program.
13 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Opera
Review: Intimate Apparel at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
Mitzi Newhouse Theatre ⋄ 13 January-6 March
By Patrick Maley
New dimensions are drawn from the characters of Lynn Nottage’s play in an operatic adaptation with music by Ricky Ian Gordon. Patrick J. Maley reviews.
13 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Four Quartets at BAM
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House ⋄ February 10-12, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Pam Tanowitz + T.S. Eliot + Kathleen Chalfant + Brice Marden = a cornucopia of dance theater. Loren Noveck reviews.