Ethan Lipton’s newest chamber musical makes us a little excited about the Singularity. Loren Noveck reviews.
Venues: Polonsky Shakespeare Center
11 April 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Macbeth (an undoing) at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ April 5-May 4, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Writer/director Zinnie Harris cracks open the Scottish play to focus on the women within it. Loren Noveck reviews.
17 December 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Des Moines at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ December 10, 2022-January 1, 2023
By Loren Noveck
Denis Johnson’s play gives us an evening in limbo with an exceptional cast. Loren Noveck reviews.
8 May 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Wedding Band at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ April 28-May 15
By Loren Noveck
Another lost classic by Alice Childress returns to the New York stage with a strong message but a muddy production. Loren Noveck reviews.
8 November 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Gnit at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ October 30-November 21, 2021
By Ran Xia
“The temerity to see yourself at the center of it all”: Does Will Eno’s newest critique the myth of the hero’s journey, or just give us another example of it? Ran Xia isn’t so sure.
3 February 2020
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Timon of Athens at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ January 11-February 9
By Ran Xia
This rarely produced Shakespeare play “illuminates the utter divide between the rich and the poor.” Ran Xia reviews.
28 November 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Fefu and Her Friends at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ November 16-December 8
By Loren Noveck
María Irene Fornés’s groundbreaking work of environmental theater still feels radical forty years later. Loren Noveck reviews.
21 January 2019
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: About Alice at Theatre for a New Audience
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ January 8-February 3
By Alicia Kort
Does this love letter succeed in rectifying the public image of a lost soul mate? Alicia Kort reviews.
1 February 2018
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box at TFANA/Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ 30th January - 11th February
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck reviews Adrienne Kennedy’s first new play in a decade.
1 March 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Skin of Our Teeth
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ 14th February - 19th March 2017
By Lane Williamson
“We’re all Antrobuses:” Lane Williamson reviews Theatre for a New Audience’s probing revival.