“It’s imperfect, of course, but its imperfections…are part of the whole.” Loren Noveck reviews Pan Pan Theatre Company’s take on Chekhov.
Reviews
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.
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.