Review: Best Life at JACK
Loren Noveck, October 2021

Its content certainly hits with utterly timely resonance now, after the racial reckonings of 2020, in the midst of moral panics about reparations and justice and how we tell and teach American history, as we claw, unequally, out of the recession triggered by the pandemic. (Read more here)

New york innovative theatre awards

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards Announce Recipients of 2020-21 Honorary Awards Chloe Rabinowitz, September 2021

Recipient of the Indie Theater Champion Award, JACKNY's hands-on and direct manner of promoting awareness and progress have been of great benefit to the indie theatre community. (Read the full press release here)

Performance and Community Hub JACK Cuts Ribbon on New Space By Anna Bradley-Smith, September 2021

JACK, Clinton Hill’s community theater, has officially opened the doors on a new space that will give it room to grow and offer even more to its actors and audiences. (Read more here)

Building Trust After Exclusivity Failed
By Helen Shaw, June 2020

So what can the field not just learn but do? Given the years of promise-making and promise-breaking, where are the paths forward? There clearly needs to be restructuring. Suddenly, after decades of inaction, theaters are casting around for models they can imitate. (Read more here)

20 Theater Figures on How to ‘Revolutionize’ Their World
By Jennifer Schuessler and Scott Heller, Sept. 2020

Here, six months after most stages went dark, 20 theater figures — many far from the heart of the commercial sector — offer their own suggestions. They have been edited for space and clarity. (Read more here)

Alec Duffy and Jordana De La Cruz with Mei Ann Teo
By Mei Ann Teo, June 2020

JACK, sanctuary of Art and Activism: Before, During, and After COVID-19. I ask Alec and Jordana how are you wrestling with the uncertainty of the now? What will JACK become next? (Read more here)

The 2020 Bessie Nominees
JACK: Amanda Szeglowski, this is now, and now, and now.

For her nuanced and perceptive “ode to aging,” performed with crystalline beauty by an intergenerational ensemble of women. (Read more here)

‘TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever’ Review: It’s No Valentine
NYT Critic’s Pick
By Laura Collins-Hughes, February 2020

On Friday night at JACK, in Brooklyn, the audience was at a loss. At the end of James Ijames’s whip-smart satire “TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever” (which you would be wise to race to see)… (Read more here)

JACK Finds a New Home and Some New Leadership
By Peter Libbey, February, 2019

Life often isn’t easy for small performing arts venues in New York. Even beloved spaces can struggle with the city’s high rents and competition for fund-raising dollars. But JACK, an interdisciplinary performance space in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood, is showing that it is possible to thrive. ​(Read more here)

Theater Reviews
By Helen Shaw, December 2019

The finely performed play currently playing — T. Adamson’s The Straights — has only tossed around a bit of tumbleweed set dressing and hung a single screen. But the space makes it look rich: Set off to its perfect advantage, The Straights glows like a ring in a velvet box. (Read more here)

Exeunt NYC Winter Edition | JACK Is Back
By Loren Novek, December 2019

Broadway, opera, festivals, imports and more. Who says things have to slow down once the cold weather hits? Our critics have your winter theater-going plans covered. (Read more here)

Vibrating Borders: A Conversation with Kate Kremer
By Jerry Lieblich, December 2019

The play (Term of Art), like much of Kate’s work, is a collage of archival materials. With a heart aching for justice and a mind like an x-acto knife, Kate gathers Supreme Court transcripts, art from detainees at Guantanamo, reporting on the current human rights atrocities at our Southern border (read more here)

The Johnsons: A Comedic Nightmare Version of an American Dream
By Dan O’neil, October 2019

In The Johnsons, a strange, funny, and semi-satirical family drama by Amina Henry…things are not going well. The family cat has run off. There is a dead and naked grandmother in the bathtub. Mom’s burning through her pills, downing them with straight vodka.
(Read more here)

JACK Brooklyn, A Clinton Hill Arts Space Pushing for a Diverse, Equal Community
By Anna Bradley-Smith, April 2018

In 2016, the theater hit a turning point when work around racial justice made it clear that diversity should be reflected at all levels of the organization, not just in its programming. (read more here)

September 2012

“Over the last five years, we’ve seen the neighborhood kind of explode with bars and restaurants, but no real increase in any kind of cultural activity or spaces,” he says. “We saw an opening for the kind of work we were doing. And it’s exciting to us as an opportunity to potentially bridge [the gap between] audiences.” (Read More Here)