Radio play meets lush picture book meets dark fairy tale in Aleshea Harris’s new online work. Loren Noveck reviews.
Reviews
18 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: A Dozen Dreams at Brookfield Place
Brookfield Place ⋄ 13 May-30 May
By Lane Williamson
Twelve playwrights and a team of designers bring pandemic dreams to life in an art installation/immersive theatre odyssey at the Brookfield Place mall. Lane Williamson reviews.
17 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord at NYTW
online ⋄ 14th-16th May 2021
By Nicole Serratore
Kristina Wong’s solo show about her mutual aid efforts during the pandemic documents this moment in Asian American history. Nicole Serratore reviews.
3 May 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: All the Different Ways That Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died
online ⋄ Available online
By Nicole Serratore
A short theater-animated hybrid confronts the history of Commodore Matthew Perry with humor and lamentation. Nicole Serratore reviews.
8 April 2021
Reviews • NYC Regional • Performance
Review: The Return of the Dragon at REDCAT
online ⋄ 10th-11th April 2021
By Nicole Serratore
Guillermo Calderón and his collaborators make a mini-documentary that reflects on Chilean politics, the pandemic, and where theater goes from here. Nicole Serratore reviews.
5 April 2021
Reviews
Review: Wish You Were Here at Williamstown Theatre Festival via Audible
Williamstown Theatre Festival ⋄ Available to stream
By Cameron Kelsall
Through their partnership with Audible, Williamstown Theatre Festival presents the world premiere of Sanaz Toossi’s play, a chronicle of female friendship against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
28 March 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Honestly Sincere at Theater in Quarantine
online ⋄ Available online
By Nicole Serratore
Theater in Quarantine offers scarily accurate time travel to those awkward teen years in Honestly Sincere. Nicole Serratore reviews.
11 March 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Letter to My Father at M-34
online ⋄ February 19-March 28, 2021
By Dylan Hoffman
Franz Kafka is trapped in an endless argument with the man who inspired all the inscrutable tyrants who populate his writing: Franz’s own father. Dylan Hoffman reviews.
24 February 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Long Goodbye at BAM/MIF
online ⋄ Through 1st March 2021
By Nicole Serratore
With intimacy and intensity, Riz Ahmed performs a personal gig-storytelling show that looks at the complexities of post-colonial identity. Nicole Serratore reviews.
1 February 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Bloodshot: The Call at Exponential Festival
online ⋄
By Nicole Serratore
A short film sequel to a film noir stage show set during a fictional plague now mirrors our real one. Nicole Serratore reviews.