Reviews & Roundups

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A scene from creation stories and all the important importants at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater
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Review Roundup: CREATION STORIES AND ALL THE IMPORTANT IMPORTANTS at the Claire Tow Theater

The first notices are in for creation stories and all the important importants, Mfoniso Udofia’s world premiere for LCT3, which opened at Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow Theater on Thursday, October 1.

Michael Mulheren and Victoria Clark sitting on cushions on the floor of the research tent in Human Things at the West End Theatre. Photo by Emilio Madrid
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Review Roundup: HUMAN THINGS at the West End Theatre

The reviews are in for Human Things, the first play by Joshua Owen to reach Off-Broadway, which opened on September 25 at the West End Theatre on West 86th Street in a staging by Rory McGregor.

Andrey Burkovskiy and Chulpan Khamatova, dusty and wide-eyed, leaning over a balcony rail in Delirium at the Space at Irondale. Photo by Austin Ruffer
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Review Roundup: DELIRIUM at the Space at Irondale

The reviews are in for Delirium, Igor Golyak’s adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s 1962 Frenzy for Two, or More, which his Arlekin Players Theatre brought to Brooklyn’s Space at Irondale after a Boston-area run this summer…

Christopher Dylan White as Target, in cow-print cosplay, in a bedroom full of plush toys in Degenerates at Playwrights Horizons
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Review Roundup: DEGENERATES at Playwrights Horizons

The reviews are in for Degenerates, the new play by Else Went and her second with her wife, the director Emma Rosa Went, after last season’s five-hour Initiative.

Denee Benton and Jasmine Amy Rogers sit facing each other across a wooden cafeteria table in green and orange school uniforms
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Review Roundup: SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

The reviews are in for School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Jocelyn Bioh’s 1986-set comedy about a Ghanaian boarding school where the Miss Ghana pageant recruiter is coming and the queen bee has just met her…

Roger Guenveur Smith, in a pinstriped suit, raises one hand at the microphone against a green-lit brick wall
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Review Roundup: IN HONOR OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT at New York Theatre Workshop

The reviews are in for In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the solo piece Roger Guenveur Smith has written, directed and performs at New York Theatre Workshop about the friend he met in a Los Angeles dance hall in 1982…

Gestapo officer Karl, in uniform and peaked cap, frisks Hannah against the wall of a white brick cell, her arms outstretched
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Review Roundup: MRS. STERN WANDERS THE PRUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY at 59E59 Theaters

The reviews are in for Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, Jenny Lyn Bader’s chamber drama about the eight days in 1933 that the young Hannah Arendt spent in a Gestapo cell in Berlin, accused of gathering…

Joey Arias in a red gown singing in front of a big band of marionette musicians on an art-deco bandstand
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Review Roundup: ARIAS WITH A TWIST at HERE Arts Center

The notices are in for Arias with a Twist, the return of Basil Twist and Joey Arias’s puppet-and-song spectacle to the HERE Arts Center, where it first played in 2008.

Jacob Ming-Trent alone on a wooden stage in front of tall panels projected with a green portrait of Shakespeare
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Review Roundup: HOW SHAKESPEARE SAVED MY LIFE at the Public Theater

The notices are in for How Shakespeare Saved My Life, which opened at the Public Theater on September 27 and runs to October 25.