Robert Icke and Juliet Stevenson elevate a medical procedural while examining identity politics. Lane Williamson reviews.
Off-Broadway
10 June 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Deep Blue Sound at Clubbed Thumb Summerworks
The Wild Project ⋄ June 5-June 15
By Loren Noveck
This portrait of a community drifts into the disappointingly vague and episodic. Loren Noveck reviews.
6 June 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Wet Brain at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ May 17-June 25, 2023
By Lorin Wertheimer
Lorin Wertheimer finds that an alien ex machina leaves him cold in John J. Caswell’s new play.
5 June 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Comeuppance at Signature Theatre Center
Signature Theatre ⋄ May 17-June 25
By Loren Noveck
Death is the uninvited guest at a pre-reunion pre-game party in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play, expertly directed by Eric Ting. Loren Noveck reviews.
28 May 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Evelyn Brown (A Diary) at La Mama
La MaMa Downstairs ⋄ May 19-June 4, 2023
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck finds this lost María Irene Fornés play a curious artifact.
25 May 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Primary Trust at the Laura Pels Theatre
Laura Pels Theatre ⋄ May 4-July 2, 2023
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck feels like hope is hard to come by right now, and Eboni Booth’s new play succeeds in bringing us just a little.
25 May 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Work Hard Have Fun Make History at Clubbed Thumb Summerworks
18-30th May 2023
By Nicole Serratore
ruth tang’s sly, funny play explores prophets and profits. Nicole Serratore reviews
22 May 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Monsoon Wedding at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ May 6-June 25, 2023
By Juliet Hindell
Juliet Hindell finds this musical adaptation of a 2001 film sometimes predictable, but nonetheless irresistible.
20 May 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: demons. at the Connelly Theater
Connelly Theater ⋄ May 16-June 3, 2023
By Loren Noveck
Keelay Gipson writes and directs a surreal dark comedy about trauma, where the monsters are real. Loren Noveck reviews.
18 May 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Fears at the Pershing Square Signature Center
Pershing Square Signature Center ⋄ April 25-July 9, 2023
By Loren Noveck
Emma Sheanshang’s new play feels like it was created by an algorithm; there’s nothing at its core. Loren Noveck reviews.