Shayan Lotfi’s Off-Broadway debut is ambitious but frustrating. Nicole Serratore reviews.
Venues: Atlantic Stage 2
31 January 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Paris at Atlantic Stage 2
Atlantic Stage 2 ⋄ 8 January-16 February, 2020
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan Ramirez finds more repetitions of an idea than productive variations on a theme in Eboni Booth’s new play for the Atlantic.
21 July 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth at Atlantic Stage 2
Atlantic Stage 2 ⋄ July 9-August 4 (in rep)
By Ran Xia
Tom Stoppard mashes up Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, underground Czechoslovakian theater, and an investigation into the limits of language, with surprisingly hilarious results. Ran Xia reviews.
4 June 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Nomad Motel at Atlantic Theater Stage 2
Atlantic Stage 2 ⋄ May 22-June 23
By Cameron Kelsall
Cameron Kelsall finds nothing authentic in Carla Ching’s “compendium of clichés.”
24 January 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Eddie and Dave at Atlantic Stage 2
Atlantic Stage 2 ⋄ 10 January - 10 February
By Lane Williamson
A bio-play about Van Halen, where the men are played by women, examines gender and fandom. Lane Williamson reviews.
8 June 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Animal at Atlantic Stage 2
Atlantic Stage 2 ⋄ To 2nd July 2017
By Tom Wicker
Clare Lizzimore gets in the head of a woman trying to hold herself together. Tom Wicker reviews.
24 July 2016
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: No End of Blame at Atlantic Stage 2
Atlantic Stage 2 ⋄ 5th July - 7th August 2016
By Todd Backus
Assigning blame: Todd Backus reviews a play inspired by the life of political cartoonist Victor Weisz, as part of the Potomac Theatre Project’s new season.