Writing — Juan A. Ramirez

Staff Pick: Most Memorable Theater of 2019

The Exeunt critics look back on 2019 and recall their most memorable theater moments.

TheatreJuan A. RamirezDecember 26, 2019staff pick, exeunt, oklahoma, damon daunno, daniel fish, ali stroker, 2019

Review: The Thin Place at Playwrights Horizons

Juan A. Ramirez is sufficiently spooked by Lucas Hnath’s new play that looks at one woman’s connection to the space between life and death.

TheatreJuan A. RamirezDecember 12, 2019theatre, exeunt, thin place, playwrights horizons, lucas hnath, review

Review: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven at the Linda Gross Theater

Juan Ramirez finds Stephen Adly Guirgis’s newest play “intensely watchable” and “refreshingly nonjudgmental.”

Review: Barber Shop Chronicles at the BAM Harvey Theater

Haircuts and community abound in this exhilarating production from London’s National Theatre that has stayed with Juan A. Ramirez since he first saw it a year ago.

TheatreJuan A. RamirezDecember 9, 2019theatre, review, exeunt, bam, barber shop chronicles, inua ellams

Review: History of Violence at St. Ann’s Warehouse

A real life attack of sexual violence is refracted through multiple perspectives and the distance of memory in this adaptation of an Édouard Louis novel from the Schaubühne Berlin. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.

Review: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf at The Public Theater

Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem offers serious beauty against an awful world in a joyous production at The Public. Juan Ramirez reviews.

TheatreJuan A. RamirezOctober 24, 2019theatre, exeunt, for colored girls, public theater

Review: Sunday at the Atlantic Theater

A “truly exhausting book club meeting” tries to solve the Millennial question in Jack Thorne’s latest. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.

TheatreJuan A. RamirezSeptember 26, 2019theatre, review, exeunt, atlantic company, sunday, jack thorne

Review: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord at WP Theater

Original and unexpected, but an uneven tone weakens this new play by Alexis Scheer. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.

TheatreJuan A. RamirezSeptember 25, 2019theatre, exeunt, review, wp theater, our dear dead drug lord, alexis cheer

Review: American Moor at Red Bull Theater

Keith Hamilton Cobb’s impassioned argument for having a voice in his own representation is compelling, but also holds too much back. Juan A. Ramirez reviews.

TheatreJuan A. RamirezSeptember 8, 2019theatre, exeunt, american moor, red bull theater, cherry lane, keith hamilton cobb