Too many branches keep the trunk obscured in Agnes Borinsky’s new play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Venues: Playwrights Horizons
15 November 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Downstate at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 28 October-11 December
By Cameron Kelsall
“Brilliant button-pusher” Bruce Norris wades into murky moral water with his latest play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
22 June 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Corsicana at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 2 June-10 July
By Lane Williamson
A woman with Down syndrome, her brother, their mother’s best friend, and an artist who avoids human interaction populate a small town in this contemplative, moving new play by Will Arbery. Lane Williamson reviews.
6 December 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Selling Kabul at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ November 17-December 23, 2021
By Loren Noveck
Sylvia Khoury’s new play explores the anguishing human costs of the United States’s “Forever War” in Afghanistan. Loren Noveck reviews.
12 December 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Thin Place at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 15 November - 29 December
By Juan A. Ramirez
Juan A. Ramirez is sufficiently spooked by Lucas Hnath’s new play that looks at one woman’s connection to the space between life and death.
7 October 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Heroes of the Fourth Turning at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ September 13-October 27
By Cameron Kelsall
Playwright Will Arbery admirably endeavors to craft a nuanced portrait of conservative Catholicism, but the result is a facile exploration of religious and political tribalism. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
18 June 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: A Strange Loop at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ May 24-July 7
By Alison Walls
Michael R. Jackson’s self-referential meta-musical loops around itself a little too much to be fully satisfying, but still offers plenty to think about and enjoy. Alison Walls reviews.
24 April 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Pain of My Belligerence at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ March 29-May 12
By Joey Sims
“That Guy” infects our collective bloodstream, in a play Joey Sims calls “theater as a scream of pain.”
18 March 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 15th of February – 5th April 2019
By Ayanna Prescod
Tori Sampson’s new play gives the audiences a mirror to reflect on ideas around black beauty. Ayanna Prescod reviews.
11 December 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Noura at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ November 27-December 30
By Loren Noveck
In Noura, a refugee lives in exile from herself, trying to reconcile her past and her present. Loren Noveck reviews.