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Off-Broadway Review: “Animal Wisdom” at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Through Sunday, June 14, 2026)

Currently playing at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at Pershing Square Signature Center, Heather Christian’s “Animal Wisdom” is a self-described “requiem within a requiem” that got terribly lost at the Mass’s Introit and never found its way back to the spiritual center it promised to disclose to the audience. Christian bills the piece as multiple things simultaneously: her life story,…

Off-Broadway Review: “Cold War Choir Practice” at MCC Theater (Through Sunday, April 5, 2026)

The most devastating moment in Ro Reddick’s “Cold War Choir Practice” is not a Soviet missile strike. It is an American bomb, planted by an American cult, detonating on South Salina Street in Syracuse, New York. As flames consume Davis’s Candy Emporium and Atomic Fireballs rain down like radioactive fallout, 10-year-old Meek (Alana Raquel Bowers) watches her nightmare made literal…