“It’s imperfect, of course, but its imperfections…are part of the whole.” Loren Noveck reviews Pan Pan Theatre Company’s take on Chekhov.
Off-Broadway
16 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Buried Child at the Signature Theater
Signature Theater ⋄ Until 3rd April 2016
By Patrick Maley
Patrick Maley reviews “a slow and meticulous” production of Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer winning play.
15 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Familiar at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 12th February - 10th April 2016
By Loren Noveck
The cracks start to show through the polished facade of Danai Gurira’s perfect family.
15 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Hospital at Abrons Arts Centre
Abrons Arts Center ⋄ 9th - 12th March 2016
By Alison Walls
Alison Walls reviews a show that “for all the skill on display and apparent desire to be avant-garde, is deeply regressive.”
14 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Brodsky/Baryshnikov at Baryshnikov Arts Centre
BAC ⋄ 9th - 19th March 2016
By Molly Grogan
You couldn’t ask for more in this intimate conversation between a Nobel laureate and a living legend of dance, but Alvis Hermanis gives us his two cents anyways.
7 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Rap Guide to Climate Chaos at SoHo Playhouse
Soho Playhouse ⋄ 25th February - 24th April 2016
By Seth Simons
A disorienting self-reflexivity, a mirror aimed at another mirror: Seth Simons reviews Baba Brinkman’s show.
2 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Wildness, Sky-Pony's Rock Fairy Tale at Ars Nova
Ars Nova ⋄ 16th February -19th March 2016
By Loren Noveck
Loren Novek reviews Sky-Pony’s kitsch but charming rock fairy tale.
1 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Nice Fish at St Ann's Warehouse
14th February - 27th March 2016
By Alexander Cohen
A strange but satisfying production of Louis Jenkins’ prose poetry, with Mark Rylance bringing comedy and tenderness to his role.
25 February 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: City of Glass at the New Ohio Theater
19th February - 12th March 2016
By Loren Noveck
Edward Einhorn’s adaptation “never takes shape as either the story of an investigation or a noirish look into the darker, more opaque sides of human nature.”
18 February 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Grand Paradise in Brooklyn
383 Troutman Street ⋄ 30th January - 31st March 2016
By Nicole Serratore
Macramé on the walls, shelves of wooden pineapples, American Tourister suitcases, and an orgy of silver lamé costumes…but something remains missing from this immersive experience.