★★★☆☆ Dina Shihabi give a strong performance as a woman forced from Damascus, attempting to survive by any means
The Sound Inside: Adam Rapp’s Potent Nod to Great Literature
★★★★☆ Mary-Louise Parker is strong as a creative-writing teacher with a talented, troubled student
Forbidden Broadway The Next Generation: Musical Comedy Takes It on the Chin
★★★★☆ Gerard Alessandrini is back with his usually delectable vengeance
The Rose Tattoo: Tennessee Williams’ Rose Isn’t a Rose Isn’t a Rose
★★★☆☆ Director Trip Cullman takes the work, starring Marisa Tomei, to be only a comedy, but it’s more than that
The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter: The Decline Rises
★★★★☆ The 1965 Ben Bagley revue well treated by director Pamela Hunt, with Lee Roy Reams
Terra Firma: Sally Hammond’s Comedy(?) Not on Firm Ground
★★☆☆☆ The Coop’s introductory production lacks substance, wastes the marvelous Andrus Nichols
All My Fathers: Sometimes You Can Go Home But Maybe Shouldn’t
★★★☆☆ Paul David Young’s drama eventually waxes metatheatrical to no heavy benefit
The Wrong Man: How Wrong a Wrong Man Can Go in Song and Dance
★★★☆☆ Ross Golan’s original musical looks at injustice but not with sufficient insight
Round Table: King Arthur Sort of Remembered Then and Now
★★★☆☆ Liba Vaynberg’s (autobiographical?) play views troubled romance during two disparate eras
The New Englanders: Mixed-Race Gay Couple with Daughter Clash
★★★☆☆ Jeff Augustin’s play doesn’t quite get to the bottom of a family’s incipient dysfunction