Loren Noveck doesn’t quite know whether to laugh or cry at this workplace comedy about Russian social media trolls that’s both terrifyingly realistic and absurdly hilarious.
Venues: online
20 October 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Circle Jerk
online ⋄ Through 7th November 2020
By Nicole Serratore
Going full maximalism, this live streaming show is skewering satire of white supremacy in gay circles.
31 July 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: we need your listening at Ice Factory Festival
online ⋄ 30th July - 2nd August 2020
By Nicole Serratore
A Zoom show about listening and distance offers moments of connection, with a surprise appearance of a cat. Nicole Serratore reviews.
23 July 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Weir at Irish Repertory Streaming
online ⋄ 21st – 25th July 2020
By Patrick Maley
An online rendering of Conor McPherson’s The Weir highlights our pandemic loneliness. Pat Maley reviews.
15 July 2020
Reviews
Review: A School for Fools
online ⋄ 4 June-9 July
By Daniel Krane
Belarus Free Theatre expands the boundaries of a laptop or tablet with their imaginative livestream experience. Daniel Krane reviews.
28 May 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Joinification Ceremony for the Church of FemAnimism
online ⋄ Monthly Church Services
By Janaki Ranpura
7 Daughters of Eve and Sibyl Kempson gather worshipers together for a delicate new form of theater-church. Janaki Ranpura gives thanks and praise.
28 May 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Homebound Project Second Edition
online ⋄ 20th of May -24th of May 2020, Additional series in June
By Daniel Krane
The Homebound Project offers a tasty theatrical buffet with 11 bite-sized shorts by playwrights like Anne Washburn and Ngozi Anyanwu. Daniel Krane sups on the series’ sustenance.
20 May 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
online ⋄ 18th - 24th May 2020
By Nicole Serratore
Revisiting a personally pivotal Daniel Kitson show now streaming online, Nicole Serratore visits her past self.
18 May 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Performance for One
online ⋄ Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays at select times
By Nicole Serratore
A one-on-one theater theater piece online asks questions about the role of audience and the power of memory. Nicole Serratore reviews.
15 May 2020
Reviews
Review: Beirut and The Honeycomb Trilogy
online ⋄
By Joey Sims
Joey Sims compares two approaches to Zoom plays that have emerged during quarantine: the more traditional theatre-like style of MCC’s “Beirut” and the scrappier, internet-acknowledging “The Honeycomb Trilogy” from Gideon Productions.