Can you create friendship and connection when you are controlling the audience? Nicole Serratore reviews the new play by Nassim Soleimanpour.
Off-Broadway
17 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Downstairs at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Cherry Lane Theatre ⋄ 7 November - 22 December
By Cameron Kelsall
Tim and Tyne Daly are cast against type in a play written for them and their real-life sibling rapport doesn’t shine through. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
15 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Prisoner at Theatre for a New Audience
Theatre for a New Audience ⋄ 25 November - 16 December
By Joey Sims
Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne ask how a person can atone for their crimes in a moving new theatrical work. Joey Sims reviews.
13 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Clueless at The Pershing Square Signature Center
Pershing Square Signature Center ⋄ 20 November - 12 January
By Joey Sims
Amy Heckerling’s musical adaptation of her classic ’90s film is a good time, but not necessarily good theatre. Joey Sims reviews.
13 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Net Will Appear at 59E59
59E59 Theaters ⋄ 5 December - 30 December
By Dan O'Neil
Erin Mallon’s play is a welcome escape into something nice. Dan O’Neil reviews.
12 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Slave Play at New York Theatre Workshop
New York Theatre Workshop ⋄ 9th -30th December 2018
By Alison Walls
Explicit, provocative, and rich with intentional ambiguity, Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play mixes shocked laughter with deep discomfort.
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.
10 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Jungle at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ December 4-January 27
By Ran Xia
The Jungle asks if even the worst of places can become a home. Ran Xia reviews.
9 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Head and the Load at Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue Armory ⋄ December 4-15
By Juliet Hindell
A “living sculpture” that pays tribute to the forgotten African heroes of the Great War. Juliet Hindell reviews.