A storytelling show about death and grief maybe avoids the emotional crux of the material. Nicole Serratore reviews.
Off-Broadway
1 May 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Stargazers at the Connelly Theater
Connelly Theater ⋄ April 8-May 10, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Majkin Holmquist’s new play roots itself in the Kansas land to examine what holds a community together. Loren Noveck reviews.
1 May 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ April 12-May 19, 2024
By Lorin Wertheimer
A show that is quirky, surprising, and risk-taking should tick all Lorin Wertheimer’s boxes. And yet in this case, not so much.
24 April 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Grenfell: in the words of survivors at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ April 13-May 12, 2024
By Lorin Wertheimer
Lorin Wertheimer is pushed from compassion to frustration by this documentary theater piece.
21 April 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Orlando at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre ⋄ April 2-May 12
By Loren Noveck
Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel feels timely in Will Davis’s revival. Loren Noveck reviews.
16 April 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Sally & Tom at the Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ March 28-May 12
By Loren Noveck
Suzan-Lori Parks’s play-within-a-play opens challenging conversations and leaves us to do the rest. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 April 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Macbeth (an undoing) at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ April 5-May 4, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Writer/director Zinnie Harris cracks open the Scottish play to focus on the women within it. Loren Noveck reviews.
29 March 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Dead Outlaw at the Minetta Lane
Minetta Lane Theatre ⋄ February 28-April 14, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Audible Theatre launches into musicals with this weird and wonderful tale. Loren Noveck reviews.
27 March 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Grief Hotel at Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ 20th March - 20th April 2024
By Nicole Serratore
An encore run of Liza Birkenmeier’s play gives you a chance to catch up with her hilarious characters fumbling through life and loss. Nicole Serratore reviews.
26 March 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Brooklyn Laundry at MTC NY City Center
New York City Center - Stage I ⋄ 6th February to 14th April 2024
By Nicole Serratore
Life is all out of chicken in this troubling new play served up by John Patrick Shanley. Nicole Serratore reviews.