Stephanie Yankwitt

Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stages’ “On That Day in Amsterdam at 59E59 Theaters (Through Sunday, September 4, 2022)

Promising a touching love story following a one-nightstand encounter in Amsterdam, Clarence Coo’s “On That Day in Amsterdam” (currently on at 59E59 Theaters) delivers instead a convoluted story of risk, disenfranchisement, immigration policy, art history, and duplicity that has little to do with the narrative’s main characters. This is unfortunate given the actors are outstanding, the direction first-rate, and the…

Off-Broadway Review: “Nomad Motel” at Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2

June 12, 2019 | Off-Broadway > | "Nomad Motel", Ahron R. Foster, Andrew Pang, Carla Ching, Christopher Larkin, Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, Joy Lanceta Coronel, Loren Shaw, Margaret Dunn, Molly Griggs, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Samantha Mathis, Stephanie Yankwitt, TBD Casting, Yu-Hsuan Chen

With a nod (intentional/unintentional) to the genre of disillusioned youth represented by Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 “This Is Our Youth,” Carla Ching’s “Nomad Motel” currently running at Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2 dives headlong into the lives of a triangle of vagabond California youth yearning to belatedly separate and individuate from adults who have been less than successful in providing safe…