★★★☆☆ A devoted yet at-odds couple seen only tentatively dealing with diversity
Off-Broadway
The Memory Exam: A Fantasy That Tests Credulity More than Memory
★★☆☆☆ A somewhat trying 90-minuter in which characters must try to remember, like it or not
Strings Attached: Science, Love, Jealousy in an Uneasily Tied Package
★★☆☆☆ Science as a cogent subject for our time, handled with only mild success
Kate: Comedian-Actor-Shapeshifter Kate Berlant Does It All
★★★★☆ A 70-minute one-woman show goes beyond the standard stand-up comic style
Kinky Boots: The Lauper-Feinstein Tuner Kicks Up its Heels Off-Broadway
★★★★☆ The hit musical returns in full Broadway strength, under Jerry Mitchell’s guiding hand
Once Upon a (korean) Time: Marvelous Stories Told by Marvelous Tellers
★★★★☆ Bold new playwright Daniel K. Isaacs tells stories, with beauty
As You Like It: A Pastoral Musical Comedy Delight
★★★★★ Journey into the Forest of Arden with this bright and breezy Public Works production
Two Jews, Talking: Two TV Stars, Two One-Act Plays, Too Few Laughs
★★★☆☆ 1970s TV fans will relish the chance to see Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell together, even in a clichéd comedy
Two Jews, Talking: Exactly, Mildly What the Title Promises
★★★☆☆ Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell in a 60-minute-plus, two-part comedy
On That Day in Amsterdam: Strangers Find Romance, and Guilt, Far From Home
★★★☆☆ A college boy meets a less fortunate traveler in Clarence Coo’s play