★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector
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The Loved Ones: Four Women Loosely Linked by Heartache and Happenstance
★★★★☆ Nicola Murphy Dubey directs a cast of four, led by the irreproachable Maryann Plunkett, in Erica Murray’s countryside drama
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: In Search of the Shiny Man
★★★☆☆ Debbie Allen directs a decidedly earthbound revival of August Wilson’s most mystical play
The Balusters: Love Thy Rule-Following, Historically Appropriate Neighbor
★★★★☆ Kenny Leon directs David Lindsay-Abaire’s new comedy about a neighborhood association gone wrong
Fallen Angels: Here’s to Women Behaving Badly
★★★★☆ Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara are riotously funny in Noël Coward’s 101-year-old buddy comedy
Cats: The Jellicle Ball: A Disco-Tastic Revival of Lloyd Webber’s Musical
★★★★★ You’ll be feline good after this ultra-glam Broadway-meets-ballroom production
Titus Andronicus: Goths, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Spears
★★★☆☆ Shakespeare’s bloodiest play gets a fittingly messy off-Broadway revival starring the unimpeachable Patrick Page
Mother Russia: Finding Comedy in a Country’s Dark History
★★★★☆ The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of capitalism prove excellent fodder for Lauren Yee’s sharp new play
High Spirits: Death Becomes Them
★★★★☆ Sip and savor (but don’t think too hard about) this 1964 musicalization of Noël Coward’s famous 1941 farce
The Disappear: Art Isn’t Easy
★★★☆☆ Erica Schmidt’s world premiere dramedy skewers a self-absorbed filmmaker and the people who love him