Miraculous puppets and macabre whimsy. Loren Noveck reviews an Under the Radar show for all ages.
Performance
18 December 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Reviews: True Love Forever at Art X
Art X ⋄ November 21, 2024-February 15, 2024
By Loren Noveck
A date-night experience that’s part concert, part dance piece, part collective catharsis. Loren Noveck reviews.
8 October 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: The Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny’s Bar at the Waterfront Museum
Waterfront Museum ⋄ September 28-October 27, 2024
By Loren Noveck
A new site-specific play about Sunny’s Bar takes us on a journey through time, and reminds us of home. Loren Noveck reviews.
13 July 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Bill’s 44th at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ July 10-28
By Loren Noveck
This emotionally expansive puppet piece is both joyful and heartbreaking. Loren Noveck finds it a pleasure to celebrate with Bill.
8 May 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Small Acts of Daring Invention at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ May 1-June 1, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck finds this unsettling puppet piece visually stunning but emotionally ephemeral.
28 February 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Existentialism at La Mama
La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theater ⋄ February 23-March 10, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Talking Band, La Mama, and Anne Bogart remind us of Off-Off-Broadway’s roots in this small gem of a performance piece. Loren Noveck reviews.
12 January 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Open Mic Night at Under the Radar
Performance Space New York ⋄ January 5-18, 2023
By Loren Noveck
An imaginary elegy for a lost theater scene. Loren Noveck reviews.
28 October 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ October 21-November 5, 2023
By Loren Noveck
This dance theater piece at St. Ann’s never really gets to the subject its title implies, for good or for ill. Loren Noveck reviews.
16 September 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Psychic Self Defense at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 12-30, 2023
By Loren Noveck
Normandy Sherwood’s hallucinatory dreamscape isn’t like anything Loren Noveck has ever seen before.
12 July 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy at the Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim Museum ⋄ 2nd to 5th July 2021
By Nicole Serratore
A veritable snowstorm of misogyny falls in this galvanizing installation performance from artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Nicole Serratore reviews.