Michael Sommers

★★☆☆☆ Vintage songs curdle in coy performances

★★★☆☆ Three actors make a cautionary saga of excessive drinking go down easily

★★★★☆ Younger conservatives drunkenly debate fundamental issues at Playwrights Horizons

★★☆☆☆ A bluesy atmosphere and musical performances enhance an awfully talky new drama

★★★★☆ A Japanese company delivers an unusually immersive staging of a classical play

★★★☆☆ Teens idolize Pablo Escobar in newcomer writer Alexis Scheer’s offbeat dramedy

★★☆☆☆ Meet some “wry and ironic and dull” characters at Atlantic Theater, or perhaps not

★★★☆☆ New York Theatre Workshop stages two installments of Mfoniso Udofia’s epic nine-play cycle

★★★☆☆ An episode involving Ernest Hemingway’s several widows is a highlight of a new satirical comedy