Seth Simons reviews the New York Shakespeare Exchange’s great Hamlet experiment.
Reviews
4 April 2016
Reviews • Opera
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest at the Barbican
Barbican Theatre ⋄ 29th March - 3rd April 2016
By Maddy Costa
“There is a violence at the heart of this opera,” Maddy Costa reviews The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Ramin Gray.
30 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Wolf in the River at The Flea Theater
The Flea Theater ⋄ Until 2nd May 2016
By Nicole Serratore
Nicole Serratore reviews Adam Rapp’s show at The Flea Theater.
29 March 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Seagull and Other Birds at Abrons Arts Center
Abrons Arts Center ⋄ 23rd March - 2nd April 2016
By Loren Noveck
“It’s imperfect, of course, but its imperfections…are part of the whole.” Loren Noveck reviews Pan Pan Theatre Company’s take on Chekhov.
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.
9 March 2016
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Hughie at Booth Theatre
Booth Theatre ⋄ Until 27th March 2016
By Patrick Maley
Forest Whitaker excellently captures his character’s desperate need for an audience.
8 March 2016
Reviews • Opera
Review: Akhnaten at ENO
London Coliseum ⋄ 8th - 18th March 2016
By Amelia Forsbrook
Amelia Forsbrook discovers a religious revolutionary with a choir boy’s sweetness.