★★★☆☆ Maybe take a step back if your babysitter offers to “co-parent”? A cautionary tale from the mommy-wars front.
Off-Broadway
Endgame: A Fine-Tuned Production of Beckett’s Favorite Play
★★★★☆ Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson headline Irish Rep’s revival of the 1957 tragicomedy
Endgame: Bill Irwin, John Douglas Thompson Play Beckett’s Work to Win
★★★★☆ Ciarán O’Reilly also directs Joe Grifasi, Patrice Johnson Chevannes in a first-rate revival
On Set With Theda Bara: David Greenspan Vamps in High Style
★★★★☆ Joey Merlo’s hour-long fun fantasy, directed to a jaunty fare-thee-well by Jack Serio
Without You: Rent’s Anthony Rapp Remembers the Classic Musical
★★★★☆ A monologue about love, grief, joy, and a famed production’s highs and lows
Without You: A Musical Memoir of Loss
★★★☆☆ Original “Rent” star Anthony Rapp delivers a musical evening based on his best-selling memoir.
Small Talk: Colin Quinn On the Lost Art of Casual Conversation
★★★★☆ In his newest one-man show, the comedian reminds us of the importance of informal in-person interaction
Colin Quinn Small Talk: Anything But
★★★★☆ The comedian’s latest solo show revolves around the idea that small talk is the glue that holds society together.
Sugar Daddy: So-Out-He’s-In Gay Comic Probes the Funny Side of Grief
★★★★☆ 28-year-old diabetic Jew Sam Morrison stops at little while mourning his late lover
The Appointment: Satire at Its Best on Perhaps the Worst Possible Topic
★★★★☆ A musical satire centered on the abortion debate? Only from the provocative, topical, and always edgy Lightning Rod Special.