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.
NYC
18 December 2020
Reviews • NYC
Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on Netflix
online ⋄ Available 18th December 2020
By Nicole Serratore
A stage-to-screen adaption of August Wilson’s play, showcases an electric Viola Davis and an incandescent Chadwick Boseman in his final screen appearance. Nicole Serratore reviews.
17 December 2020
Reviews • NYC • NYC Regional
Review: Animals at Williamstown Theatre Festival/Audible
Available from 16th December 2020
By Cameron Kelsall
Stacy Osei-Kuffour’s play may be written for the stage, but as an audio drama critic Cameron Kelsall finds it one of the strongest pivots he’s encountered in the reimagined 2020 theater world.
14 December 2020
Reviews • NYC • NYC Regional
Review: This is Who I Am at Woolly Mammoth
online ⋄ 5th December 2020- 3rd January 2021
By Nicole Serratore
Amir Nizar Zuabi’s play of a father and son cooking with each other over Zoom is warm but cloying. Nicole Serratore reviews.
12 December 2020
Reviews • NYC • NYC Regional
Review: Photograph 51 at Williamstown Theatre Festival/Audible
online ⋄ Available now at audible.com
By Cameron Kelsall
Informative and droll, Anna Ziegler’s play about Rosalind Franklin, a scientist undervalued by history, makes for compelling audio drama. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
3 December 2020
Reviews • NYC • NYC Regional
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire
online ⋄ Available from 3rd December 2020
By Cameron Kelsall
This audio production of Streetcar starring Audra McDonald has not quite reached its destination. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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.
5 October 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play
Over the Phone ⋄ Through 22nd November 2020
By Nicole Serratore
An interactive, phone-based show makes you think about celebrity, media, history, and memory. Nicole Serratore reviews.
21 August 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: the 7th voyage of egon tichy
July 30-ongoing
By Daniel Krane
Daniel Krane and Joey Sims contemplate what might make virtual theater appointment viewing–and appreciate quarantine theater that’s polished enough to criticize.
3 August 2020
Features • NYC • NYC Features
Theater of Your Mind: Closet Dramas and More
By Nicole Serratore
Various theater-adjacent projects offer alternatives for reading and interpreting theater at home. Nicole Serratore explores closet dramas and their ilk.