★★★☆☆ 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
Felix Starro: Musical on Philippines Psychic Surgery Needs Gurney
★★☆☆☆ Playwright Jessica Hagedorn, composer Juan Obispo take on questionable healing clumsily
Hercules: The Strong Man and Huge Cast Sing Lustily on Stage
★★★★☆ The 1997 Disney cartoon with Alan Menken-David Zippel score transfers under Lear deBessonet
House, or How to Lose an Orchard in 90 Minutes or Less: No Ax Needed
★★★★☆ The Mitu Theater Group reworks Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard” for emphatic new meaning