Sometimes lesbian space aliens are just what the doctor ordered. Loren Noveck reviews.
Venues: HERE Arts Center
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.
12 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Preparedness at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ November 10-December 10
By Loren Noveck
Hilary Miller and the Bushwick Starr present an incisive, if not groundbreaking, black comedy about workplace violence and robot cats. Loren Noveck reviews.
21 January 2021
Reviews
Review: Ocean Body at HERE Arts Center
HERE Arts Center ⋄ 9 January-16 January
By Lane Williamson
An in-person visual and audio installation transports the audience into the waters of the Gulf Coast. Lane Williamson reviews.
10 November 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ November 1-24
By Loren Noveck
This immersive theater piece tackles the weight of 400 years of black American history with both humor and horror. Loren Noveck reviews.
10 April 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Dad in a Box at HERE Arts Center
HERE Arts Center ⋄ March 29-April 13
By Kev Berry
Kev Berry gets angry and grapples with questions of artistic responsibility.