Ambitious gun culture satire sometimes misses the target. Nicole Serratore reviews.
Off-Broadway
26 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Judgment Day at Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue Armory ⋄ 5 December - 10 January
By Lane Williamson
Park Avenue Armory presents a commissioned work from Richard Jones, director of 2017’s smash production of “The Hairy Ape”, but the equation of that success doesn’t add up here. Lane Williamson reviews.
16 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: All I Want for Christmas is Attention at Town Hall
Town Hall Theatre ⋄ 11 December
By Richard Patterson
Drag superstars BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon ring in the holidays as only they can. Richard Patterson reviews.
14 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Straights at JACK
JACK ⋄ December 5-21
By Loren Noveck
A #selfie-filled road trip through a broken America. Loren Noveck reviews.
12 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Thin Place at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 15 November - 29 December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan A. Ramirez is sufficiently spooked by Lucas Hnath’s new play that looks at one woman’s connection to the space between life and death.
12 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: David Rasche at Feinstein’s/54 Below
54 Below ⋄ 4 December
By Joey Sims
Sometimes a stage flub can stick with you. Joey Sims had such an experience with New York theatre stalwart David Rasche in 2013 and again in Rasche’s cabaret debut at Feinstein’s/54 Below.
10 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven at the Linda Gross Theater
Linda Gross Theater ⋄ 15th November – 29th December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan Ramirez finds Stephen Adly Guirgis’s newest play “intensely watchable” and “refreshingly nonjudgmental.”
9 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Sorceress at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Museum of Jewish Heritage ⋄ 1 December - 29 December
By Jordan G. Teicher
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene follows up their acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof with this enjoyable Cinderella riff that Tevye and his daughters may actually have seen. Jordan Teicher reviews.
9 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Barber Shop Chronicles at the BAM Harvey Theater
BAM Harvey Theatre ⋄ 3 December - 8 December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Haircuts and community abound in this exhilarating production from London’s National Theatre that has stayed with Juan A. Ramirez since he first saw it a year ago.
4 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Pumpgirl at Irish Repertory Theatre
Irish Repertory Theatre ⋄ 7th November - 29th December 2019
By Jordan G. Teicher
Playwright Abbie Spallen has talent for description but a strong first act in this play set in Northern Ireland is weakened by a meandering second. Jordan Teicher reviews.