An exquisite corpse that veers too far to the side of random chance. Loren Noveck reviews.
Venues: HERE Arts Center
25 September 2026
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Arias with a Twist at HERE Arts Center
HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 17-November 1, 2026
By Loren Noveck
Basil Twist + Joey Arias = cabaret + drag + aliens + cheeky plants + marionette orchestra = a fizzy, witty, visually stunning good time. Loren Noveck reviews.
19 June 2026
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Camping at HERE Arts Center
HERE Arts Center ⋄ June 13-July 11, 2026
By Loren Noveck
This spring’s bounty of plays about teenaged girls gets a bittersweet coda. Loren Noveck reviews.
16 September 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: The Essentialisn’t at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 10-28, 2025
By Loren Noveck
Eisa Davis’s new piece is as much ceremony as performance art. Loren Noveck reviews.
7 April 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ March 28-April 26, 2025
By Loren Noveck
Sometimes lesbian space aliens are just what the doctor ordered. Loren Noveck reviews.
13 January 2025
Reviews • NYC • Opera
Review: Eat the Document at HERE Arts Center
HERE Arts Center ⋄ January 9-17, 2025
By Loren Noveck
Prototype presents a modern opera based on a novel that takes its name from a documentary: Loren Noveck finds it intriguingly complex.
13 July 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Bill’s 44th at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ July 10-28
By Loren Noveck
This emotionally expansive puppet piece is both joyful and heartbreaking. Loren Noveck finds it a pleasure to celebrate with Bill.
8 May 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Small Acts of Daring Invention at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ May 1-June 1, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck finds this unsettling puppet piece visually stunning but emotionally ephemeral.
16 September 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Psychic Self Defense at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 12-30, 2023
By Loren Noveck
Normandy Sherwood’s hallucinatory dreamscape isn’t like anything Loren Noveck has ever seen before.
23 September 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Marie It’s Time at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 7-October 1, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Julia Jarcho and Jennifer Seastone are magnetic as two sides of the same character in Jarcho’s latest play. Loren Noveck reviews.