★★★★★ Young immigrants search for love and belonging, under duress, in Martyna Majok’s shattering new play
What Happened? The Michaels Abroad: From Richard Nelson, More Food for the Soul
★★★★★ The playwright and director completes his Rhinebeck Panorama with a typically nourishing, and trenchant, work.
Blindness: Light, Flickering, at the End of a Tunnel
★★★★☆ Simon Stephens’s stark, lyrical adaptation of the novel arrives in New York, for socially distanced audiences
Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce…Pandemic!: Silver Bells and Sequins, Tidings of Dysfunction and Joy
★★★★☆ The restless multihyphenate revisits the season, virtually
Shipwreck: On Trump, Race, Privilege, Friendship and Other Vexing Matters
★★★★☆ Anne Washburn and direct Saheem Ali mix the fantastical with the naturalistic in an audio version of this “History Play About 2017”
What Do We Need to Talk About?: Apple Tart for the Soul
Nelson’s Apple Family returns, virtually, to engage and comfort deprived theater fans
Intermission Talk: How Broadway Singing Fell Prey to Pop Music’s Excesses, and Why There’s Hope
On keeping singing in musical theater about storytelling, rather than showboating
72 Miles to Go: A Family Torn by Borders
★★★☆☆ A well-meaning new play documents a family’s struggles after being separated from its undocumented matron
Mr. Toole: A Creative Life Cut Short, Leaving Love and Anguish Behind
★★★★☆ A new play reflects on a literary hero, and on the toll and rewards of inspiration
Incantata: Making Art Out of Grief
★★★☆☆ Paul Muldoon’s feverishly elegiac poem makes its American stage debut