★★★☆☆ Gracie Gardner’s play about skin cancer patients in a surgical waiting room is engaging if unbelievable
Cost of Living: Worth the Steep Emotional Investment
★★★★☆ Martyna Majok’s award-winning drama explores disability, class, privilege, and loss in a tidy 110 minutes
Burn: Alan Cumming Goes Into His Dance
★★★☆☆ The Tony-winning actor intrigues as Scottish poet Robert Burns in a solo dance show
Kate: Comedian-Actor-Shapeshifter Kate Berlant Does It All
★★★★☆ A 70-minute one-woman show goes beyond the standard stand-up comic style
As You Like It: A Pastoral Musical Comedy Delight
★★★★★ Journey into the Forest of Arden with this bright and breezy Public Works production
Two Jews, Talking: Two TV Stars, Two One-Act Plays, Too Few Laughs
★★★☆☆ 1970s TV fans will relish the chance to see Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell together, even in a clichéd comedy
The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini’s Literary Sensation Beguiles Broadway
★★★★☆ The stage version of the 2003 novel proves to be the theatrical equivalent of a page turner
Seagull: Did You Hear the One About the Writer?
★★★☆☆ Chekhov’s tale of avian metaphors and unrequited loves gets the experimental Elevator Repair Service treatment
Chains: Brit Playwright Elizabeth Baker, in Mint Condition
★★★★☆ A 113-year-old British drama proves to be an ideal pandemic-era production
Corsicana: Will Arbery in a Lone Star State of Mind
★★★☆☆ Everything’s bigger in Texas, including this protracted four-character play