★★☆☆☆ A grant-winning genius bites the philanthropic hands that feed him
About Michael Sommers
Angry Alan: John Krasinski Swallows the Red Pill
★★★★☆ Director Sam Gold’s staging exhibits a nice American guy going wrong
The Wash: Airing a Ripe Slice of American History
★★★☆☆ New Federal Theatre delivers a drama about the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen’s strike
A Freeky Introduction: Divine Wisdom for Being Your Best Sexy Self
★★★☆☆ NSangou Njikam’s show sees a Yoruban deity preach positivity in a string of stories
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse: Skanks for the Y2K memories
★★★☆☆ Gen Z vloggers seek clicks and a missing chick in a mixed-up new musical
Five Models in Ruins, 1981: Dressed for Excess
★★☆☆☆ Elizabeth Marvel shoots a gallery of swans in lovely circumstances
Dead Outlaw: Macabre, Morbid, and Wickedly Smart
★★★★☆ David Yazbek and Itamar Moses craft a rowdy tuner about a surprisingly lively corpse
Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Bright and Breezy in the Big Easy
★★★★☆ David Hyde Pierce, Jinkx Monsoon and Ramin Karimloo sail away in a Gilbert & Sullivan showboat
Floyd Collins: Jeremy Jordan goes deep as a forgotten headliner from 1925
★★★★☆ Taylor Trensch, Jason Gotay, and Lizzie McAlpine are notable in LCT’s revival of a sorrowful musical drama
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp: Caryl Churchill Vaudeville
★★★★☆ Deirdre O’Connell and John Ellison Conlee head a bill of diverse acts at the Public Theater