★★★☆☆ Lynn Nottage’s inter-Pulitzer satire is well revived at the Signature, but still only hits some of its marks
Sea Wall / A Life: Personal Storytelling, Carefully and Impersonally Constructed
★★★★☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal offer two monologues of love and death, immaculately performed if not quite honest
True West: Sam Shepard’s Brotherhood of Man
★★★★☆ Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano are excellent in a revival that’s still shadowed by its previous staging
Clueless, the Musical: Cher Horowitz Takes Manhattan, Awkwardly
★★★☆☆ Writer-director Amy Heckerling tries turning her classic movie about a ’90 Beverly Hills ‘Emma’ into a musical
The Jungle: As the World Burns, These Refugees Still Have Hope
★★★★★ This dynamic, extraordinary British import confronts our global crisis and offers insight but no answers
Wild Goose Dreams: Broken Relationships, and the Internet
★★★☆☆ A moving story about the perils of separation gets distracted by the bells and whistles of social media
The New One: Public Radio Onstage, Exactly as Exciting as It Sounds
★★☆☆☆ The actor, comedian, and This American Life contributor Mike Birbiglia tells a wry story, for some reason onstage
The Thanksgiving Play: Maybe It Wasn’t All Fun and Maize
★★☆☆☆ This Playwrights Horizons satire amusingly skewers already well-skewered American patriotic pieties
The Waverly Gallery: Lonergan’s Memory Play, Slim But Heartbreaking
★★★★☆ Elaine May is the perfect center of this very New York-y revival about aging and family
Plot Points in Our Sexual Development: In a Queer Relationship, Universality
★★★★☆ A careful, wry look inside a very specific relationship—and at how everyone grows up and figures themselves out