Review: Laowang, a Chinatown King Lear at Primary Stages
This Shakespeare adaptation doesn't live up to its premise. Lorin Wertheimer reviews. The post Review: Laowang, a Chinatown King Lear at Primary Stages appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
This Shakespeare adaptation doesn't live up to its premise. Lorin Wertheimer reviews. The post Review: Laowang, a Chinatown King Lear at Primary Stages appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's musical comes back to New York with the warmth of an old friend. Lane Williamson reviews. The post Review: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Ne…
Lorin Wertheimer finds Rajiv Joseph's new play about confused young men stumbling into history both funny and tragic. The post Review: Archduke at the Laura Pels Theatre appeared first on Ex…
Craig Baldwin's modern, bold rendering of Shakespeare's classic reveals new dimensions of the text, particularly through a wonderful central performance by Michael Urie. Patrick Maley review…
Anne Washburn's new play crosses the line from intriguingly elliptical into frustratingly opaque. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire at the Vineyard Th…
Martyna Majok's play about immigrant women sits uneasily with the politics of this moment. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Queens at New York City Center appeared first on Exeunt Maga…
A unique theatrical experience that blends docudrama and immersive theater to dramatize the stakes of climate change. Carol Rocamora reviews. The post Review: Kyoto at Lincoln Center Theater…
This documentary restaging of a famous Martha Graham interview is more than a historical curiosity. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Martha@BAM"The 1963 Interview at Brooklyn Academy o…
This honky-tonk musical is hampered by a confusing flashback structure that saps emotional immediacy. Lorin Wertheimer reviews. The post Review: Beau: The Musical at St. Luke's Theatre appe…
An exceptional ensemble and a clever site-specific setting enhance Jeana Scotti's emotionally complex play. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Oh, Honey at Little Egg appeared first on E…
Bess Wohl's play about second-wave feminism remains as powerful and gratifying as it moves to Broadway. Nicole Serratore reviews. The post Review: Liberation at James Earl Jones Theatre app…
A story of survival and love, told with both language and movement. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Did You Eat? (ë°¥ 먹었니?) at the Public Theater appeared first on…
Our critic sees the 97 year old cabaret legend for the first time and gets it. Lane Williamson reviews. The post Review: Marilyn Maye at 54 Below appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
An indescribably strange and beautiful musical meditation on time. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Oratorio for Living Things at Pershing Square Signature Center appeared first on Exe…
A cowboy love story, with David Cale's melancholy spin. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Blue Cowboy at the Bushwick Starr appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
A play about art that's also a play about male friendship. Carol Rocamora reviews. The post Review: Art at Music Box Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
The second Broadway revival of Ahrens, Flaherty, and McNally's musical about America opens, powerful as ever, at Lincoln Center. Lane Williamson reviews. The post Review: Ragtime at the Vivi…
One of New York's great avant-garde theater companies shines in a simple story of three lives. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Triplicity at Performance Space New York appeared first …
Playing almost a dozen characters, Jen Tullock delivers a dizzyingly complex performance in a piece she co-wrote. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Nothing Can Take You from the Hand o…
Playwright Preston Max Allen, director David Cromer, and three rich performances show us a complex portrait of a family trying to find its way forward. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review:…
Naomi Wallace's play about labor activism remains timely in its themes, but this muddy production doesn't showcase them. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Slaughter City at ART/NY appea…
A busy production overshadows the human element in this new play by James Graham. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Punch at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre appeared first on Exeunt M…
Carol Rocamora finds Jonathan Spector's new play dizzyingly complex but extremely rewarding. The post Review: This Much I Know at 59E59 appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.
Tim Blake Nelson's play presents a stark near-future where dystopian rules create a new form of justice. Juliet Hindell reviews. The post Review: And Then We Were No More at La MaMa appeared…
A science-fiction tale that strives to work in a new genre, but falls short on many levels. Lorin Wertheimer reviews. The post Review: The Glitch at Theater Center appeared first on Exeunt M…