★★☆☆☆ Playwright John Neary presents a Northeastern family in as much distress as the proceedings are
Behind the Sheet: Charly Evon Simpson Smart on Women’s Problems
★★★★☆ How a surgeon in the South uses slave women to solve complicated labor developments
Maestro: Toscanini Conducts Beautiful Music Again
★★★★☆ Eve Wolf’s newest look at a supernal artist, with six musicians added to lend their proficient all
Under the Radar: Hear Word! Naija Women Talk True, Frankenstein
★★★★ A Nigerian all-female troupe proclaim their independence
★★ The Manual Cinema group takes on Shelley
The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes: An Off-Center Gaze at the Future
★★★☆☆ Director/choreographer Chase Brock and scenarist/composer Eric Dietz ponder robots robotically
Swingin’ With the Season: Michael Feinstein’s Wide Holiday Greetings
★★★★★ The top-drawer cabaret entertainer stretches the Christmas/Chanukah song boundaries
Network: Ivo van Hove Brings the 1976 Oscar-Winning Film Glaringly to the Stage
★★★☆☆ Bryan Cranston plays Paddy Chayevsky’s addled newscaster Howard Beale amid all sorts of distracting goings-on
The Cher Show: Just as Sassy, Bold and Determined as the Star Herself
★★★★☆ Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks and Micaela Diamond play Sonny’s erstwhile partner with the absolutely right style
The Hello Girls: Perky, Pertinent World War I Musical Is Welcome
★★★★☆ Songwriter Peter Mills and Prospect Theater Company celebrate pioneering Great War telephone operators
The Hard Problem: Tom Stoppard Presents and Cleverly Solves His Latest Theater Problem
★★★★☆ Consciousness is on the playwright’s mind, whether and where that mind might be located, as one young, smart woman sees it