At the beginning of Playwright Levi Holloway’s “Paranormal Activity,” currently running at the August Wilson Theatre, newlyweds Lou (Cher Álvarez) and James (Travis A. Knight) enter their new home in London, a home provided by James’s company. The complex play asks a deceptively simple question: Who haunts whom – are houses haunted or are the people in the houses haunted?…
Eleven shows. Eleven days. Welcome to April’s theatrical marathon. What follows are compressed reviews – 300 words each, five shows per roundup – covering everything we’ve seen for Outer Critics Circle nominating and voting purposes. The format is leaner, but the critical standards remain unchanged: what works, what doesn’t, and why it matters. “ATTICA! ATTICA!” Sonny Amato’s battle cry turned…
In Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s most recent iteration of “Pass Over,” two “brothers” Moses (Jon Michael Hill) and Kitch (Namir Smallwood) engage in an interminable exchange of escapist fantasy-dialogue in which they ask one another, “What kind of plans you got?” Moses’ His Promised Land Top 10 list includes “reaching his full potential,” “getting his ass off this block,” “a penthouse…