★★★★☆ Classic Stage delivers very different but very smart new versions of the classic horror stories, in rep
Riddle of the Trilobites: An Earnest New Musical Packs Multiple Messages
★★★☆☆ Prehistoric characters deal with global warming and learn that change is their friend
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: They’re All Talk and No Action
★☆☆☆☆ A dull new musical regards a not-so-fab foursome of the Swinging ’60s
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: Spooky and Sexy Romance in Dance
★★★★☆ A classical ballet reimagined as a bisexual psychodrama briefly revisits New York
STEW: A Mothers and Daughters Dish
★★★★☆ Playwright Zora Howard debuts Off-Broadway with a tasty kitchen sink-type drama
The Confession of Lily Dare: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
★★☆☆☆ Charles Busch stars as a self-sacrificing mama in his send-up of Pre-Code Hollywood flicks
Paris: Black Invisibility in a White World
★★★☆☆ Eboni Booth sets her insightful working class drama in a big box store in 1995
Timon of Athens: Re-gendered and Re-Engineered for Audiences Today
★★★☆☆ Kathryn Hunter plays the title figure in a relatively obscure play by Shakespeare (and Thomas Middleton)
How to Load a Musket: Re-creating Your Own Personal American History
★★★★☆ A smart new docudrama studies history re-enactors whose pastime can be obsessive
The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood: Big City Blues
★★★☆☆ Japanese playwright Suguru Yamamoto collages dance, drama, text, and video in his study of urban existence