Ghosts are hard to escape in these two parts of Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Cycle, but the family matriarch, Abasiama, forces herself to try. Ran Xia reviews.
Off-Broadway
26 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Sunday at the Atlantic Theater
Atlantic Theater Company ⋄ September 4-October 13
By Juan A. Ramirez
A “truly exhausting book club meeting” tries to solve the Millennial question in Jack Thorne’s latest. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.
25 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord at WP Theater
WP Theater ⋄ 11th of September – 20th of October 2019
By Juan A. Ramirez
Original and unexpected, but an uneven tone weakens this new play by Alexis Scheer. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.
23 September 2019
Features • NYC • NYC Features • Off-Broadway
Finding Community with ShakesBEER
By Patrick Maley
8 years of Shakespearean pubcrawls has taught the artists behind ShakesBEER a lot. Patrick Maley explores the history of this NYC tradition.
20 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Novenas for a Lost Hospital at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater ⋄ September 5-October 13
By Lane Williamson
The West Village of the past is resurrected in Cusi Cram’s elegiac play that happens in and around Rattlestick’s theatre, bringing to life the AIDS patients and the saints that inhabited St. Vincent’s Hospital. Lane Williamson reviews.
15 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Night of the Moles at the NYU Skirball Center
NYU Skirball Center ⋄ September 12-September 14
By Dan O'Neil
Enormous moles exhaust their possibilities in this adventurous French production. Dan O’Neil reviews.
15 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Only Yesterday at 59E59
59E59 Theaters ⋄ September 7-September 29
By Joey Sims
John Lennon and Paul McCartney forge their iconic bond in this simplistic, but ultimately moving play by Bob Stevens. Joey Sims reviews.
10 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: BAD NEWS! i was there… at the NYU Skirball Center
NYU Skirball Center ⋄ September 6-September 8
By Alison Walls
This mash-up of Ancient Greek messenger speeches tries to break conventionality with a roving audience and miles of caution tape, but it ends up falling into its own traps. Alison Walls reviews.
8 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: American Moor at Red Bull Theater
Cherry Lane Theatre ⋄ 27th of August – 5th of October 2019
By Juan A. Ramirez
Keith Hamilton Cobb’s impassioned argument for having a voice in his own representation is compelling, but also holds too much back. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.
6 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Waterboy and the Mighty World at Bushwick Starr
Bushwick Starr ⋄ 4th - 7th September 2019
By Joey Sims
Loose connections but stronger feelings bring a sense of community to a devised work by The HawtPlates. Joey Sims reviews