★★★☆☆ Playwright Emily Mann, director Diane Paulus, and an all-female creative and production team join forces with journalist, author, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem
Apologia: Stockard Channing as Mother Inferior
★★☆☆☆ A birthday dinner takes a dark turn in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s English countryside–set drama
Sakina’s Restaurant: Aasif Mandvi Returns to His Roots
★★★☆☆ Aasif Mandvi plays six characters in this 20th-anniversary revival of his Obie-winning one-man show
Final Follies: Something Old, Something New From A.R. Gurney
★★★☆☆ Primary Stages’ triptych of Gurney shorts—which includes the late playwright’s newest, “Final Follies”—comes up a bit short
Bernhardt/Hamlet: What a Piece of Work
★★★★☆ Janet McTeer is divine in Theresa Rebeck’s metatheatrical ode to Sarah Bernhardt and Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Life Is No Picnic
★★★☆☆ Kristine Nielsen and Annette O’Toole lock horns in a rare revival of an underappreciated Tennessee Williams drama
The True: The Dirty Business of Party Politics
★★★☆☆ Edie Falco stars as the rumor-besieged woman behind the man in Sharr White’s 1977-set political play
Beautiful: Some Kind of Wonderful Show
★★★★☆ Long-Run Lookback: Abby Mueller shows the world all the love in her heart as Broadway’s current Carole King in the long-running biomusical
Uncle Vanya: Richard Nelson Goes to Russia
★★★★☆ Richard Nelson brings his signature understated style to Chekhov’s tragicomedy in this debut from the Hunter Theater Project
Collective Rage: All Betties, All the Time
★★★☆☆ Jen Silverman’s characters are smart, sharp-tongued, and far from stereotypical. Try to keep up.