An excellent group of poems and dramatic scenes about forced migration wants to break free of its Zoom box. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.
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7 January 2021
Reviews
Review: Espíritu at Under the Radar
Public Theater ⋄ 6 January-17 January
By Juan A. Ramirez
Under the Radar presents a “Marxist Lynchian nightmare” from Chilean company Teatro Anónimo that meets the anxieties of our time. Juan A. Ramirez 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.”
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.
31 January 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Paris at Atlantic Stage 2
Atlantic Stage 2 ⋄ 8 January-16 February, 2020
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan Ramirez finds more repetitions of an idea than productive variations on a theme in Eboni Booth’s new play for the Atlantic.
29 January 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Confession of Lily Dare at the Cherry Lane
Cherry Lane Theatre ⋄ 11 January – 5 March
By Juan A. Ramirez
Charles Busch is a legend, but Juan Ramirez finds his newest play a little too retro for its own good.
12 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Thin Place at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 15 November - 29 December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan A. Ramirez is sufficiently spooked by Lucas Hnath’s new play that looks at one woman’s connection to the space between life and death.
10 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven at the Linda Gross Theater
Linda Gross Theater ⋄ 15th November – 29th December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan Ramirez finds Stephen Adly Guirgis’s newest play “intensely watchable” and “refreshingly nonjudgmental.”
9 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Barber Shop Chronicles at the BAM Harvey Theater
BAM Harvey Theatre ⋄ 3 December - 8 December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Haircuts and community abound in this exhilarating production from London’s National Theatre that has stayed with Juan A. Ramirez since he first saw it a year ago.
21 November 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: History of Violence at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ November 13-December 1
By Juan A. Ramirez
A real life attack of sexual violence is refracted through multiple perspectives and the distance of memory in this adaptation of an Édouard Louis novel from the Schaubühne Berlin. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.