Basil Twist’s simple, haunting puppets embody ancient Chinese myths. Loren Noveck reviews.
Off-Broadway
17 March 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: what you are now at Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre ⋄ March 10-April 3, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Exposition bogs down a play about the neuroscience of memory and the persistence of trauma. Loren Noveck reviews.
10 March 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Chinese Lady at the Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ February 23-April 10, 2022
By Daniel Krane
Lloyd Suh’s comedy exposes the hollow promise at the root of shallow theatrical representation. Daniel Krane reviews.
26 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Wolf Play at Soho Rep
Soho Rep ⋄ February 4 through March 20, 2022
By Loren Noveck
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.
21 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Merchant of Venice at Theatre for a New Audience
Theatre for a New Audience ⋄ 5 February-6 March
By Patrick Maley
Director Arin Arbus digs into Shakespeare’s play to show us, anew, what’s been there all along. Patrick Maley reviews.
15 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Space Dogs at MCC
Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ January 25-March 13, 2022
By Juliet Hindell
Juliet Hindell reviews an inventively wacky two-man musical about the unsung dog heroes at the heart of the Russian space program.
13 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Opera
Review: Intimate Apparel at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
Mitzi Newhouse Theatre ⋄ 13 January-6 March
By Patrick Maley
New dimensions are drawn from the characters of Lynn Nottage’s play in an operatic adaptation with music by Ricky Ian Gordon. Patrick J. Maley reviews.
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.
1 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Prayer for the French Republic at Manhattan Theatre Club
New York City Center - Stage I ⋄ January 13- February 27, 2022
By Juliet Hindell
Joshua Harmon’s new play is poignant and passionate, though perhaps more than making its point. Juliet Hindell reviews.
25 January 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Long Day’s Journey into Night at the Minetta Lane Theatre
Minetta Lane Theatre ⋄ 18 January-20 February
By Cameron Kelsall
The Tyrones face the opioid crisis and Covid-19 in Robert O’Hara’s contemporary production. Cameron Kelsall reviews.