Is it soup? Or is it art? And how good is the soup, anyway? Loren Noveck reviews.
Off-Broadway
6 December 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Selling Kabul at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ November 17-December 23, 2021
By Loren Noveck
Sylvia Khoury’s new play explores the anguishing human costs of the United States’s “Forever War” in Afghanistan. Loren Noveck reviews.
26 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Medicine at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ November 11-December 12
By Daniel Krane
Daniel Krane finds not a lot to hold on to in Enda Walsh’s “brusque and often alienating” new play.
23 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Morning Sun at New York City Center – Stage I
New York City Center - Stage I ⋄ 12 October - 19 December
By Lane Williamson
Simon Stephens’ new play focuses on the ordinary life of one woman in Greenwich Village, but what makes the ordinary worth depicting on stage? Lane Williamson reviews.
18 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Cullud Wattah at the Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ November 2-December 12
By Loren Noveck
Erika Dickerson-Dispenza’s award-winning play won’t let us look away from the tragedy of Flint, Michigan. Loren Noveck reviews.
15 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Assassins at Classic Stage Company
Classic Stage Company ⋄ 2 November-29 January
By Lane Williamson
A jumbled production brings down the first rate cast in this revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical. Lane Williamson reviews.
12 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Preparedness at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ November 10-December 10
By Loren Noveck
Hilary Miller and the Bushwick Starr present an incisive, if not groundbreaking, black comedy about workplace violence and robot cats. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Nollywood Dreams at MCC Theater
Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ 21 October - 28 November
By Juliet Hindell
Jocelyn Bioh takes on the world of Nigerian cinema in her delightful new play. Juliet Hindell reviews.
11 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: while you were partying at Soho Rep
Soho Rep ⋄ 3 November-28 November
By Daniel Krane
Simple ingredients add up to “a bare-knuckled punch to the face” in this new work at Soho Rep. Daniel Krane reviews.
8 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Gnit at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ October 30-November 21, 2021
By Ran Xia
“The temerity to see yourself at the center of it all”: Does Will Eno’s newest critique the myth of the hero’s journey, or just give us another example of it? Ran Xia isn’t so sure.