★★☆☆☆ 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
Margaret Trudeau: Certain Woman of an Age: Former First Lady Tells All
★★★☆☆ How the onetime headline grabber deals with bipolar disorder and other exigencies
Only Yesterday: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Caught in the Rain
★★★★☆ Fans will love what Bob Stevens imagines two Beatles get up to on a documented day off
American Moor: Keith Hamilton Cobb Turns an Othello Audition Red Hot
★★★☆☆ The playwright/actor questions how effective any understanding between the races can be
Lear, That Old Man I Used to Know: Not the Tragedy You Used to Know
★★★☆☆ Writer-director Beth Ann Hopkins fools with Shakespeare’s King Lear for intriguing changes
Dust: Milly Thomas Wrote, Performs an Ashen but Lively Monologue
★★★★☆ A raw look, directed by Sara Joyce, at what happens after a death that isn’t exactly final