219 stories by "Loren Noveck"
A pair of twins think they know what their future holds. Jiehae Park's biting tragicomedy shows how wrong they are. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Julia Jarcho and Jennifer Seastone are magnetic as two sides of the same character in Jarcho's latest play. Loren Noveck reviews.
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A Gertrude Stein opera libretto transformed into a bravura one-man show by the great David Greenspan. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Angela Hanks creates ten rich, nuanced roles for women in the third installment of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks. Loren Noveck reviews.
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A fable about war and capitalism that finds wit, heart, and sexiness in unexpected places. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's adaptation of a 13th-century Chinese drama has power and ideas to spare, but the whole is sometimes less than the sum of its parts. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Sweet but not sappy, tart but not sour: this tale of a quinceañera is visually striking and has a lot of heart. Loren Noveck reviews.
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The quintessence of Hamlet, brilliantly and hilariously distilled into a young Black queer Southern man singing karaoke to Radiohead's "Creep" at a backyard wedding barbecue. Loren Noveck re…
A Turkish playwright homes in on the intersection of love and activism. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Another lost classic by Alice Childress returns to the New York stage with a strong message but a muddy production. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Shaina Taub's new musical tells a nuanced and complex history of the fight for women's suffrage. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Basil Twist's simple, haunting puppets embody ancient Chinese myths. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Exposition bogs down a play about the neuroscience of memory and the persistence of trauma. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Hansol Jung's new play at Soho Rep asks what it means to make a family, and how we live when that goes wrong. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Pam Tanowitz + T.S. Eliot + Kathleen Chalfant + Brice Marden = a cornucopia of dance theater. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Is it soup? Or is it art? And how good is the soup, anyway? Loren Noveck reviews.
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Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, and Clare Boothe Luce walk into a bar...except the bar is a Malibu estate and they're all on acid. Loren Noveck finds the hook irresistible, but the execution less…
Sylvia Khoury's new play explores the anguishing human costs of the United States's "Forever War" in Afghanistan. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Alice Childress's long-delayed Broadway debut marries simmering rage and sharp satire, and holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the theater world we still inhabit. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Erika Dickerson-Dispenza's award-winning play won't let us look away from the tragedy of Flint, Michigan. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Hilary Miller and the Bushwick Starr present an incisive, if not groundbreaking, black comedy about workplace violence and robot cats. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Melissa Tien's play asks, If you could turn back time, even a little bit, would that make it any easier to engineer genuine social change? Loren Noveck reviews.
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Lucas Hnath makes harrowing and unsettling use of his mother's life, channeled through an extraordinary performance by Deirdre O'Connell, in a piece that raises questions about the ethics of…
Tina Satter's documentary theater piece transfers to Broadway with its power and its exceptional central performance intact. Loren Noveck reviews.
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A glittery "histo-remix" of the lives of Henry VIII's six wives brings its high-energy woman power back to Broadway post-shutdown. Loren Noveck reviews.
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