Caryl Churchill’s latest goes by in a flash and leaves you wishing for more. Loren Noveck reviews.
Off-Broadway
8 June 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Hymn to the City at Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery ⋄ 3 June-6 June
By Lane Williamson
Death of Classical and the New York Philharmonic team up to present a moving (emotionally and physically) concert across the expanse of Green-Wood Cemetery. Lane Williamson reviews.
26 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: This American Wife
online ⋄ 20th May - 6th June 2021
By Nicole Serratore
Interrogating twirling housewives and the performance of realness, this satirical offering from Fake Friends works best when using its own voice. Nicole Serratore reviews.
25 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Brother, Brother, at New York Theatre Workshop (online)
online ⋄ April 26-July 25, 2021
By Loren Noveck
Radio play meets lush picture book meets dark fairy tale in Aleshea Harris’s new online work. Loren Noveck reviews.
18 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: A Dozen Dreams at Brookfield Place
Brookfield Place ⋄ 13 May-30 May
By Lane Williamson
Twelve playwrights and a team of designers bring pandemic dreams to life in an art installation/immersive theatre odyssey at the Brookfield Place mall. Lane Williamson reviews.
17 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord at NYTW
online ⋄ 14th-16th May 2021
By Nicole Serratore
Kristina Wong’s solo show about her mutual aid efforts during the pandemic documents this moment in Asian American history. Nicole Serratore reviews.
3 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: All the Different Ways That Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died
online ⋄ Available online
By Nicole Serratore
A short theater-animated hybrid confronts the history of Commodore Matthew Perry with humor and lamentation. Nicole Serratore reviews.
28 March 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Honestly Sincere at Theater in Quarantine
online ⋄ Available online
By Nicole Serratore
Theater in Quarantine offers scarily accurate time travel to those awkward teen years in Honestly Sincere. Nicole Serratore reviews.
11 March 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Letter to My Father at M-34
online ⋄ February 19-March 28, 2021
By Dylan Hoffman
Franz Kafka is trapped in an endless argument with the man who inspired all the inscrutable tyrants who populate his writing: Franz’s own father. Dylan Hoffman reviews.
24 February 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Long Goodbye at BAM/MIF
online ⋄ Through 1st March 2021
By Nicole Serratore
With intimacy and intensity, Riz Ahmed performs a personal gig-storytelling show that looks at the complexities of post-colonial identity. Nicole Serratore reviews.