Caryl Churchill’s latest goes by in a flash and leaves you wishing for more. Loren Noveck reviews.
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25 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Brother, Brother, at New York Theatre Workshop (online)
online ⋄ April 26-July 25, 2021
By Loren Noveck
Radio play meets lush picture book meets dark fairy tale in Aleshea Harris’s new online work. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 January 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Iran at Under the Radar
online ⋄ January 7-17, 2021
By Loren Noveck
What does it mean to live our lives on the backwards timeline of Instagram? Loren Noveck reviews.
21 December 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Pen/Man/Ship at Moliere in the Park
online ⋄ Streaming through January 4
By Loren Noveck
Christina Anderson’s script and Lucie Tiberghien’s direction combine with brilliant design elements into an extremely well-executed piece of digital theater. Loren Noveck reviews.
30 October 2020
Reviews
Review: Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017
Podcast ⋄ beginning October 16
By Loren Noveck
This “history play about 2017” punctures liberal certainties, but maybe not enough of them. Loren Noveck reviews.
24 October 2020
Reviews • Off-Broadway
Review: Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy
online ⋄ October 20-November 15
By Loren Noveck
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.
6 August 2020
Reviews • Off-Broadway
Review: Who’s There? at Ice Factory 2020
August 4-8
By Loren Noveck
A piece of big ideas that feels more about positions than people. Loren Noveck reviews.
25 July 2020
Reviews • Off-Broadway
Review: Beginning Days of True Jubilation at Ice Factory 2020
July 24-26
By Loren Noveck
The first piece in an all-virtual Ice Factory festival uses corporate meeting technology to deconstruct the trajectory of a tech start-up. Loren Noveck reviews.
5 May 2020
Features
Viral Content for Our Viral Moment?
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck muses on capturing a little bit of live theater’s spark in Instagram monologues.
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.