Hansol Jung’s new play at Soho Rep asks what it means to make a family, and how we live when that goes wrong. Loren Noveck reviews.
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13 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Four Quartets at BAM
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House ⋄ February 10-12, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Pam Tanowitz + T.S. Eliot + Kathleen Chalfant + Brice Marden = a cornucopia of dance theater. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 January 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at The Shed
December 21, 2021 to February 6, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Is it soup? Or is it art? And how good is the soup, anyway? Loren Noveck reviews.
13 December 2021
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Flying Over Sunset at Lincoln Center Theater
Vivian Beaumont Theatre ⋄ November 11, 2021-February 6, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, and Clare Boothe Luce walk into a bar…except the bar is a Malibu estate and they’re all on acid. Loren Noveck finds the hook irresistible, but the execution less interesting.
6 December 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Selling Kabul at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ November 17-December 23, 2021
By Loren Noveck
Sylvia Khoury’s new play explores the anguishing human costs of the United States’s “Forever War” in Afghanistan. Loren Noveck reviews.
18 November 2021
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Trouble in Mind at the American Airlines Theatre
American Airlines Theatre ⋄ October 29, 2021 through January 9, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Alice Childress’s long-delayed Broadway debut marries simmering rage and sharp satire, and holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the theater world we still inhabit. Loren Noveck reviews.
18 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Cullud Wattah at the Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ November 2-December 12
By Loren Noveck
Erika Dickerson-Dispenza’s award-winning play won’t let us look away from the tragedy of Flint, Michigan. Loren Noveck reviews.
12 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Preparedness at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ November 10-December 10
By Loren Noveck
Hilary Miller and the Bushwick Starr present an incisive, if not groundbreaking, black comedy about workplace violence and robot cats. Loren Noveck reviews.
30 October 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Best Life at JACK
JACK ⋄ October 21 - November 6
By Loren Noveck
Melissa Tien’s play asks, If you could turn back time, even a little bit, would that make it any easier to engineer genuine social change? Loren Noveck reviews.
17 October 2021
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Dana H at the Lyceum Theatre
Lyceum Theatre ⋄ October 1, 2021-January 16, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Lucas Hnath makes harrowing and unsettling use of his mother’s life, channeled through an extraordinary performance by Deirdre O’Connell, in a piece that raises questions about the ethics of documentary theater. Loren Noveck reviews.