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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: Cambodian Rock Band at Signature Theatre Center

Signature Theatre ⋄ 4 February-15 March, 2020

By Alison Walls

The music is bangin’, but Lauren Yee’s script and Chay Yew’s direction never quite free themselves from the obvious. Alison Walls notes a lot of missed opportunities to be daring.