Dana H., the harrowing docudrama currently unspooling at the Vineyard Theatre, is a one-woman show performed by two women. As adapted by playwright Lucas Hnath, an audiotape featuring the writer’s... Read more
Off-Broadway Reviews
Our enthusiastic team of critics also covers a great volume of Off-Broadway productions in New York City, so why not peruse through our Off-Broadway Reviews section and find out what theatrical delights are entertaining audiences beyond the Great White Way?
Of course, our reviews solely represent the views and opinions of the individual critic. Nevertheless, they are sure to provide helpful guidelines in an ever-growing and flourishing Off-Broadway scene. Or visit the reviews archive for closed shows.
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We’re Gonna Die by experimental playwright Young Jean Lee isn’t really a play or a musical. It’s more akin to a cabaret act than anything else. There’s a band with a central performer who sings and... Read more -
All the Natalie Portmans, an imperfect but affecting play at MCC Theater about one family’s experience of loss, poverty and alcoholism examines an African American family in crisis, disintegrating... Read more -
Reconciling our childhood views of our parents with our adult understanding of the world can be some of the hardest and most important work we’ll ever do as human beings. Throw an unsolved murder... Read more -
“Surviving is important, but thriving is elegant.” - Maya Angelou Surviving and thriving are in ample supply at Pershing Square Signature Center, where a triumphant new Signature Theatre production... Read more -
The idea itself — making a 45-stanza poem about the poet’s lost love into a drama — is ambitious at best. The alchemy required to render Paul Muldoon’s elegiac poem Incantata into a theatre piece,... Read more -
It is a little unsettling that Pearl Cleage’s Blues For An Alabama Sky set in Harlem in 1930, is so relevant 90 years later in 2020. It deals with the economic uncertainties right after the Great... Read more -
The format of Alice Birch’s Anatomy of a Suicide, currently enjoying its US premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, has been described as experimental. Which surprises me since Ringling Brothers... Read more -
Over the past few years, playwright Kate Hamill has created something of a cottage industry, writing and acting in feminist stage adaptations of novels like Pride & Prejudice and Little Women.... Read more -
Though created 80 years apart, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula are pop-cultural close cousins. Their gothic bond was forged in 1931, when each received its own horror flick... Read more