In coming to Broadway, a musical trades behind-the-scenes grit for onstage glam. Loren Noveck reviews.
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21 November 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Opera
Review: Trojan Women at BAM
Brooklyn Academy of Music ⋄ October 18-19, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Greek tragedy reimagined by a Singaporean director through two traditional Korean musical art forms, all reminding us of the horrors of war. Loren Noveck reviews.
15 November 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Catch as Catch Can
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ October 14-November 20, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Mia Chung’s new play uses a casting conceit to investigate the question “Do you know who you are?” to devastating effect. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 November 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Only Gold at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space
Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ October 7-November 27, 2022
By Loren Noveck
A confection of a musical with terrific dancing and enough charm to make you forget how thin the book is. Loren Noveck reviews.
6 November 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: My Broken Language at Signature at the Pershing Square Signature Center
Signature Theatre ⋄ October 18-November 27
By Loren Noveck
Quiara Alegría Hudes’s adaptation of her memoir is more of an unusually creative literary reading than a play. Loren Noveck reviews.
28 October 2022
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Topdog/Underdog at the Golden Theatre
Golden Theatre ⋄ October 20, 2022-January 15, 2023
By Loren Noveck
Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize winner returns to Broadway, as powerful and as devastating as ever. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 October 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Peerless at 59E59
59E59 Theaters ⋄ September 24-November 6
By Loren Noveck
A pair of twins think they know what their future holds. Jiehae Park’s biting tragicomedy shows how wrong they are. Loren Noveck reviews.
23 September 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Marie It’s Time at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 7-October 1, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Julia Jarcho and Jennifer Seastone are magnetic as two sides of the same character in Jarcho’s latest play. Loren Noveck reviews.
20 September 2022
Reviews • Off-Broadway
Review: Four Saints in Three Acts at The Doxsee at Target Margin Theater
The Doxsee ⋄ September 15-October 9, 2022
By Loren Noveck
A Gertrude Stein opera libretto transformed into a bravura one-man show by the great David Greenspan. Loren Noveck reviews.
26 June 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Bodies They Ritual at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks
The Wild Project ⋄ June 22-July 2, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Angela Hanks creates ten rich, nuanced roles for women in the third installment of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks. Loren Noveck reviews.