★★★★☆ 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
42FT—A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels: An Old-School Charmer
★★★★☆ Sharp circus skills and eccentric machinery deliver a beguiling time
‘Twas the Night Before: Cirque du Soleil’s Bright New Holiday Gift
★★★★☆ Aerialists and acrobats deliver Christmas cheer to Madison Square Garden
one in two: An Absurdist Look at a Serious Issue
★★★☆☆ The sadly familiar story of a black man living with HIV gets an absurdist twist
Greater Clements: Haunted By History
★★★☆☆ Samuel D. Hunter delivers a significant though flawed American drama