★★★☆☆ Playwright Alice Birch looks at one of our closest, most fraught relationships, with a cast led by a haunting Carla Gugino
The Commons: Hell Is Other People
★★☆☆☆ In Lily Akerman’s new play, three’s a crowd and four is insufferable
Chekhov/Tolstoy Love Stories: From Russia with Languor
★★☆☆☆ From Mint Theater, a strangely soporific pairing of plays based on stories by creative giants
House Plant: Humans Seeking Nourishment and Connection
★★★☆☆ Sarah Einspanier’s new play follows young searchers in the digital age
Medea: Another Woman on the Verge, and Past It
★★★★☆ Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale star in Simon Stone’s harrowing tragedy, “after” the Euripides classic
Emojiland: Once You Get Restarted
★★★★☆ A delightful new musical takes us behind the screen—of our smartphones.
BOOM: Talkin’ ‘Bout His Mom’s Generation
★★★☆☆ Multi-tasking Canadian star and Gen Xer Rick Miller channels baby boomers and their icons, in words and music
London Assurance: High Jinks Among the High-Born
★★★☆☆ Irish Repertory Theatre, under Charlotte Moore’s direction, revives the early-Victorian Era comedy by Dion Boucicault
Judgment Day: The Roar, and Lure, of the Crowd
★★★★★ Ödön von Horváth’s morally charged thriller gets a fresh adaptation (by Christopher Shinn) in a stunning new production
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven: A Purgatory Where Women Lead, and Suffer
★★★★☆ The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright finds humor, despair and survival in a halfway house