Reviewer's Rating Looking at You Gillian Russo 11/09/2019“I have nothing to hide,” said multiple characters on repeated occasions throughout Looking at You, a “techno-noir opera” that immerses...
Reviewer's Rating Tech Support Elizabeth Bove 04/09/2019The blurb for Debra Whitfield’s Off Broadway premiere of her play, Tech Support, hints at a relevant, female-driven, clever yet...
Reviewer's Rating Felix Starro Chloe Darnaud 03/09/2019“Did you hear? Felix Starro is coming!” echoes around the stage, opening for the first time ever an Off-Broadway musical...
Reviewer's Rating Monica (This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky) Austin Fimmano 05/08/2019Monica Lewinsky: a name practically dripping with sex, shame, pity…a whole range of emotions that have been preserved in the...
Reviewer's Rating Summer Shorts Series B: Lucky, Providence, Appomattox Gillian Russo 05/08/2019In honor of the short form celebrated by 59E59 Theaters’ Summer Shorts Festival, I offer short takeaways from each of...
Reviewer's Rating At Black Lake Dylan Hoffman 01/08/2019At Black Lake, written by German playwright Dea Loher and translated by Daniel Brunet, opens with an arrival. Johnny and...
Reviewer's Rating Patience Gillian Russo 30/07/2019When I learned the show’s premise, I was originally skeptical that watching competitive solitaire players square off could be as...
Reviewer's Rating Queen of Hearts Dylan Hoffman 30/07/2019It has become such a rote exercise for directors and choreographers to plunder Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic that one would...
Reviewer's Rating Two’s A Crowd Gillian Russo 23/07/2019What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. For better or for worse, sometimes its bright lights, hijinks, and...
Reviewer's rating Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s MacBeth Ann Pryor 22/07/2019How can playwright Tom Stoppard play with Shakespeare? With words, with time, with a soccer ball (yes, there is one). ...