Jason Robert Brown and Jonathan Marc Sherman’s new musical cleverly parses the line between fact and truth. Loren Noveck reviews.
Reviews
6 February 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Following Evening at Perelman Performing Arts Center
Perelman Performing Arts Center ⋄ February 1-18, 2024
By Juliet Hindell
Talking Band and 600 Highwaymen take us to an earlier moment in NY theater history. Juliet Hindell reviews.
3 February 2024
Reviews • Broadway
Review: Appropriate at the Hayes Theater
Helen Hayes Theater ⋄ November 29, 2023-March 3, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck muses on the different meanings of “appropriate” and economic precariousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Broadway debut.
2 February 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The White Chip at MCC
Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ 22 January-9 March
By Lorin Wertheimer
Sean Daniels crafts an autobiographical play about his journey to recovery performed by an excellent three-person cast. Lorin Wertheimer reviews.
30 January 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Animal Kingdom at the Connelly Theater Upstairs
Connelly Theater ⋄ 25 Jan-10 Feb
By Lane Williamson
The U.S. premiere of a play about a family in group therapy that is well-directed, acted, and staged, but ultimately feels hollow. Lane Williamson reviews.
29 January 2024
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Days of Wine and Roses at Studio 54
Studio 54 ⋄ 6 Jan-28 April
By Juliet Hindell
Despite virtuosic performances, this musical adaptation of the 1962 film about a pair of alcoholics feels like its subject matter is straining against its form. Juliet Hindell reviews.
28 January 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Our Class at BAM Fisher
BAM Fisher ⋄ January 12-February 11, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Through the lives of ten Polish primary school classmates, we see the horrors a community can perpetrate upon itself, and the long tail of violence’s aftermath. Loren Noveck reviews.
22 January 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Aristocrats at Irish Rep
Irish Repertory Theatre ⋄ 11 January-3 March
By Juliet Hindell
Irish Rep continues its “Friel Project” with a beautiful revival of his play about an Irish family and their country’s changing landscape. Juliet Hindell 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.
7 January 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Whole of Time at Torn Page
December 28, 2023-January 27, 2024
By Loren Noveck
An Argentine playwright puts a dark(er) spin on the American canon. Loren Noveck reviews.