Ran Xia

Interdisciplinary Dramatist

  • AS A HUMAN
  • AS A PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR
  • AS A CRITIC
  • AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER
  • THE ARCTIC GROUP
  • AS A HUMAN
  • AS A PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR
  • AS A CRITIC
  • AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER
  • THE ARCTIC GROUP
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Reviews

  1. The Collaboration - "Pope/Bettany Elevate ‘The Collaboration’ ..."

  2. A Christmas Carol - "In 'A Christmas Carol,' a Classic Tale Made to Feel Anew"

  3. Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool - "The Hilarious, Life-Affirming 'The Old Man an..."

  4. Walking With Ghosts - "'Walking with Ghosts' is Forgettable, When It Should Be Haunting"

  5. Death of a Salesman - "Is the American Dream Worth the 'Death of a Salesman?'"

  6. Leopoldstadt - "Loss and Remembrance are at the Heart of the ..."

  7. The Kite Runner - "Rushed Storytelling Robs 'The Kite Runner' of..."

  8. Into the Woods - "You’ll Want to Lose Yourself in this Magical 'Into the Woods'"

  9. Macbeth - "A Sleek 'Macbeth' Sacrifices Clarity for Innovation"

  10. The Skin of Our Teeth - "A Glorious “The Skin of Our Teeth” Invite..."

  11. American Buffalo - "In 'American Buffalo' Nostalgia Gets in the Way of Progress"

  12. The Little Prince - "A Diluted 'Little Prince' Leads to Disenchantment"

  13. Confederates - "'Confederates' Mightily Walks Down the Elusive Road to Freedom"

  14. English - "Unraveling the Secrets of the Self Through 'English'"

  15. Dana H. - "'Dana H': In Her Own Voice"

Articles

  1. On Then and Now

Welcome to Did They Like It?! As the leading review aggregator for live theatre on and off Broadway, and around the world (#HumbleBrag), DTLI? has one mission: to make reviews more accessible and digestible — they should be easy to find, bite-sized …
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  • Medicine

  • while you were partying

  • Sheep #1

  • For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad at Soho Rep

  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  • Sugimoto Bunraku Sonezaki Shinju: The Love Suicides at Sonezaki at Jazz @ Lincoln Center

  • Notes on My Mother's Decline at A.R.T.

  • Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo at New World Stages

  • Messiah at La Mama

  • Posting Letters to the Moon at 59E59

  • Feral at 59E59

  • Surveys the Prairie of Your Room at La Mama

  • Grief is the Thing With Feathers at St. Ann’s Warehouse

  • Electronic City at New Stage

  • Unfolding at the Tank

  • River of Fire (Frigid)

  • Hercules: In Search of a Hero at Abron Arts

  • SKIN by BKBX at ART/NY

  • On Blueberry Hill at 59E59

  • Slave Play at NYTW

  • Sources of Light Other Than the Sun at HERE Arts

  • The Chinese Lady by MaYi at Theatre Row

  • Circus: Wandering City at BAM Next Wave

  • The White Album at BAM Next Wave

  • Falling Out at BAM Next Wave

  • Sesar by MaYi at Theatre Row

  • Thunderbodies at Soho Rep

  • Ants at FringeNY2018

  • Allah Earth: The Cycle of Life at FringeNY2018

  • Turing Test at FringeNY2018

  • The Great Brown Bear at FringeNY2018

  • The Odyssey at FringeNY2018

  • Intractable Woman by PlayCo at 122CC

  • James & Jamesy In the Dark at Soho Playhouse

  • Antigone in Ferguson by Theater of War

  • beep boop at HERE Arts

  • MOMIX at Joyce

  • you & me by Mummenschanz at John Jay

  • Fairview at Soho Rep

  • American Weather at HERE Arts

  • Fruit Trilogy at Lucille Lortel

  • First Love at Cherry Lane

  • Manufacturing Mischief at the Tank

  • Secret Life of Humans at 59E59

  • This Was The End at 122CC

  • Time's Journey Through a Room by PlayCo at ART/NY

  • Old Names for Wildflowers at the Tank

  • Seagullmachine at La Mama

  • Symphonie Fantastique at HERE Arts

  • The Fall at St. Ann’s Warehouse

  • Chasm at the Tank

  • This is the Color Described by the Time by New Georges at the Flea

  • Sound House by New Georges at the Flea

  • Returning to Reims at St. Ann’s Warehouse

  • Fusiform Gyrus at HERE Arts

  • Sugar at NY Live Arts


  • He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box at TFANA

  • A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds by Mac Wellman at NYTW Next Door

  • The Undertaking by the Civilians at 59E59

  • Pillowtalk at the Tank

  • BrouHaHa at Theater for the New City

  • The Snow Queen at HERE Arts

  • 8980: Book of Travelers at BAM

  • Billy and the Killers at HERE Arts

  • Greencard Wedding at HERE Arts

  • The Briefly Dead at 59E59

  • A Billion Nights on Earth at BAM

  • My Little China Girl at Dixon Place

  • Marcel + The Art of Laughter at TFANA

  • Thomas Paine in Violence at HERE Arts

  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest at West End Theater

  • Man to Man at BAM

  • The Bench at Cherry Lane

  • Wood Calls Out to Wood at the Tank

  • The Siege at Skirball

  • Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train at Signature

  • La Grenouille Avait Raison (The Toad Knew) at BAM

  • Burning Doors by Belarus Free Theatre at La Mama

  • Van Gogh's Ear at Signature

  • (re)Birth by Soulpepper at Signature

  • What Should Be the Fear at the Tank

  • A Toy Gun at Teatro Circulo

  • Goblin Market at 59E59

  • Arcadia at Atlantic 2nd Stage

  • Spoon River by Soulpepper at Signature

  • Opus Cactus at Joyce

  • The Enchantment at HERE Arts

  • (NOT) WATER at 3LD

  • Articles of Faith at The Kitchen

  • The Seagull at Access

  • Maps For A War Tourist at Dixon Place

  • A Hunger Artist by the Tank at Connelly

  • Cirkus Cirkör: Limits at BAM

  • Master at Irondale

  • soot and spit at HERE Arts

  • Hamlet by Waterwell at the Sheen Center

  • Dark Circus at HERE Arts

  • Gruff! at the PIT

  • The Whirligig at Signature

  • Iphigenia in Splott at 59E59

  • The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein at HERE Arts

  • Dead End at Axis

  • Mourning Becomes Electra by Target Margin at Abrons

  • Ski End at New Ohio

  • Uncle Abram at New Perspectives

  • Nivelli's War at New Victory

  • Kidnap Road at La Mama

  • The Little Foxes at MTC

  • Body of Women at Fourth Universalist Society

  • Year of the Bicycle at the Cell

  • Poor People's TV Room at NY Live Arts

  • Macbeth at the Secret Theatre

  • Our Trojan War at BAM

  • Charleses at the Brick

  • Angel & Echoes at 59E59

  • Samara by Soho Rep at ART/NY


  • Blind at Theater for a New City

  • The Hairy Ape at Park Avenue Armory

  • American Mill No. 2 at ART/NY

  • Terra dei Fuochi / Land of Fires at La Mama

  • How to Hamlet, or Hamleting Hamlet at HERE Arts

  • Marty's Shadow & Journey in Light and Shadow at Gene Frankel

  • The Terrifying at Abrons Arts

  • Benghazi Bergen-Belsen at La Mama

  • FRED at Dixon Place

  • Steve of Tomorrow at the Collapsable Hole

  • The Strangest at NYTW Next Door

  • In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel at 292 Theater

  • Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway

  • Welcome to the Doll Den at the Tank

  • Haram! Iran! at TADA!

  • The Cabaret at the End of the World at IRT

  • Bareback Ink at IRT

  • The Mountain Bird (Fjeldfuglen) at La Mama

  • Messenger #1 at Paradise Factory

  • See Reverse by BKBX at ART/NY

  • An Evening Conference on Feminism and Equality at the Fantabulosa Esoteric Cabaret Dada at Frigid

  • All the Fine Boys by New Group at Signature

  • Wakey, Wakey by Will Eno at Signature

  • the ephemera trilogy by the Tank at Paradise Factory

  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant at New Ohio

  • The Seafarer at 13th Street Rep.

  • Babel at 14th Street Y

  • Made in China at 59E59

  • Albatross at 59E59

  • Anna Christie at the Wild Project

  • The Witch of St. Elmora Street at Access

  • Chalk at the Kraine

  • Lost Voices at HERE Arts

  • Orwell's 1984 at Flux Factory

  • Roughly Speaking at TADA!

  • The Animal Show at Dixon Place

  • Merciful Father the Garret

  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Cave at St. George’s

  • The Cherry Orchard on Broadway

  • Duat by Soho Rep at Connelly

  • Now That We're Men at St. Francis College

  • Anaïs Nin Goes To Hell at 14th Street Y

  • My Old Man (and Other Stories) at Dixon Place

  • The Glowing Boot at United Solo

  • Orwell in America at 59E59

  • Legends & Visionaries at Danspace Project

  • I Like It Like That at Puerto Rican Travelling Theater

  • The God Projekt at La Mama

  • Hedda (Gabler) at IRT

  • The Encounter by Complicite on Broadway

  • Underground Railroad Game at Ars Nova

  • The Lady Liberty Theater Festival at Urban Stages

  • The Undertaking at BAM

  • HEDDA at HERE Arts

  • The Topography Between (a New York radio love song) at FringeNY2016

  • BORN at FringeNY2016

  • Houseless in Paradise & The Unsalable Thing at FringeNY2016

  • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon at FringeNY2016

  • Murmurs and Incantations at FringeNY2016

  • The Illusory Adventures of a Dreamer at FringeNY2016


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  • GNIT at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

  • TIMON OF ATHENS at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

  • TERRA FIRMA at Baruch

  • RUNBOYRUN & IN OLD AGE at NYTW

  • DOGG’S HAMLET, CAHOOT’S MACBETH at Atlantic Stage 2

  • THE WAY SHE SPOKE at the Minetta Lane

  • WE’RE ONLY ALIVE FOR A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME at The Public

  • LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR at The Flea

  • SQUARE GO AT 59E59

  • PASSAGE at Soho Rep

  • THE JUNGLE at St. Ann’s Warehouse

  • SELKIE at Wild Project

  • WAITING FOR GODOT at John Jay

  • WHATDOESFREEMEAN? at The Tank

  • IS IS MODERN ART at NYTW Next Door

  • THE BIRDS at St. Ann’s Warehouse

  • AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE at HERE Arts

  • DISCO PIGS at Irish Rep

  • BALLYTURK at St. Ann’s Warehouse

  • THUNDERSTORM 2.0 at Skirball Center

  • A ROOM IN INDIA at Park Avenue Armory

  • AMP at HERE Arts

  • 17c at BAM

  • The Elephant in Every Room I Enter at NYTW Next Door

  • Oedipus El Rey at the Public