Theater critics are the butt of jokes by three performance artists in this funny, smart deconstruction of the critical gaze. Nicole Serratore reviews.
Performance
29 September 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: (Still) Asking For It at Joe’s Pub
Joe's Pub ⋄ 20th September - 13th October 2019 (select dates)
By Nicole Serratore
Adrienne Truscott brings an inclusive team approach to a new looser version of her still devastating comedy show about rape culture. Nicole Serratore reviews.
27 July 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Douglas at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Daryl Roth Theatre ⋄ July 23-August 17
By Loren Noveck
What do you do after the show that blows up the very premises of your chosen art form? A show named after your dog, of course. Loren Noveck reviews.
4 May 2019
Reviews • Dialogues and debates • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Estado Vegetal at BAC
Baryshnikov Arts Center ⋄ 2nd -3rd May 2019
By Nicole Serratore
Nicole Serratore, a human, and Phyl, a plant, discuss a funny, probing show which looks at plant intelligence and life.
21 April 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: The Appointment at NYTW Next Door
4th Street Theatre ⋄ April 18-May 4
By Loren Noveck
Lightning Rod Special returns to NYC with a screwball musical revue about the American abortion debate that drops the farce to make some serious points. Loren Noveck reviews.
31 May 2017
Reviews • Performance
Review: How to Survive a Post-Truth Apocalypse at Watch Out Festival, Cambridge
May 27
By Claire Takami Siljedahl
Claire Takami Siljedahl reviews Francesca Beard’s new show about truth and deception at Cambridge’s Watch Out Festival.
30 May 2017
Reviews • Performance
Review: Bi-Curious George and Other Side Kicks at Watch Out Festival, Cambridge
May 27
By Lily James
A new, funny, cross intimacy: Lily James reviews Lucy and Addrian Hutson’s father-and-daughter performance at Cambridge’s Watch Out Festival
30 May 2017
Reviews • Performance
Review: Word at Watch Out Festival, Cambridge
May 27
By Lily James
Enormous, terrifying power: Lily James writes on taking part in Jamal Harewood’s follow up to The Privileged, a collaborative show about the impact of words.
22 December 2015
Reviews • Performance
Rose English: A Premonition of the Act
Camden Arts Centre ⋄ 12th December 2015 - 6th March 2016
By Diana Damian Martin
‘A voice can break, a flyer can fall and glass can shatter.’
29 November 2015
Reviews • Performance
The Body
Barbican Pit ⋄ 19th - 29th November 2015
By Diana Damian Martin
Poetics of the uncanny.