A new Dominique Morisseau play leaves Detroit behind to its detriment, but picks up some excellent performances.
Reviews
12 February 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Munich Medea: Happy Family at WP Theater
WP Theater ⋄ 30th January - 25th February 2024
By Nicole Serratore
A chilling story of childhood sexual assault is given a retrospective gloss by two women and suffers from some structural detachment. Nicole Serratore reviews.
8 February 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy at Vineyard Theatre
Vineyard Theatre ⋄ January 25-March 3, 2024
By Loren Noveck
A piece of digital theater from the depths of the pandemic feels different in three dimensions. Loren Noveck reviews.
6 February 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Connector at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space
Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ January 12-March 17, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Jason Robert Brown and Jonathan Marc Sherman’s new musical cleverly parses the line between fact and truth. Loren Noveck 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.