★★★☆☆ Each recovery story is unique, but this one proves overly schematic.
Off-Broadway
Prometheus Firebringer: AI Questions Not So Easily Answered
★★★☆☆ Annie Dorsen reads a lecture on a current fire-hot topic along with imagined Aeschylus tragedy
Job: Therapist-Patient-in-Trouble Play Requires Patience
★★★☆☆ Peter Friedman, Sydney Lemmon impressive in Max Wolf Friedlich work, Michael Herwitz directing
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors Tickles Ingeniously
★★★★☆ A clever script and a versatile cast transform a horror classic into pure fun and games
Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors: He’s Out for Blood, and Laughs
★★★☆☆ History’s most famous vampire is back from the undead in a kooky 90-minute comedy
Swing State: A Slice-of-Midwestern-Life Drama
★★★★☆ Outgoing Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls helms an affecting mid-pandemic drama
Swing State: Angst in the Heartland
★★★☆☆ Rebecca Gilman’s new play, imported from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, concerns the troubling chain of events that occur after a toolbox and gun are stolen from a woman’s barn.
Death, Let Me Do My Show: Rachel Bloom picks up the pieces post-Covid
★★★★☆ Bloom is back, spilling and spewing her neuroses and obsessions – wittily.
Death, Let Me Do My Show: A So-So Battle With the Grim Reaper
★★☆☆☆ Writer-performer Rachel Bloom aggressively talks and sings through a nearly one-person outing
Infinite Life: Illness as Undeveloped Metaphor
★★★☆☆ Annie Baker’s new play concerns six patients suffering from serious ailments who are undergoing treatment at an alternative medicine facility.