★★★★☆ A queer reimagining of a classic brings naughty but nice ballroom culture to Broadway
Titus Andronicus: Bloody All Right
★★★☆☆ Patrick Page is formidable as a noble Roman driven mad in Red Bull’s staging of Shakespeare’s shocker
Jesa: Honoring the Ancestors, or Maybe Not
★★★☆☆ Ma-Yi Theater premieres Jeena Yi’s contemporary comedy-drama about Korean American sisters
The Wild Party: Midnight Special
★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers, Jordan Donica, and Tonya Pinkins lead a terrific ensemble in Michael John LaChiusa’s musical of Roaring ’20s madness
Ulster American: Satirical Savagery
★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick stars as a clueless film idol in Irish Rep’s U.S. premiere of a prickly comedy
Antigone (this play I read in high school): Reclaiming the Heroine’s Voice
★★★★☆ The Public Theater premieres Anna Ziegler’s new version of a very old story
Burnout Paradise: Madhouse Multitasking
★★★★☆ Audience participation is welcomed in a comical endurance contest
What We Did Before Our Moth Days: Four People Live, Love and Die
★★★★☆ Hope Davis and Josh Hamilton brighten a sorrowful new Wallace Shawn drama staged by Andre Gregory
Bigfoot!: Fuzzy and Facetious
★★☆☆☆ A new musical satirizes the gullibility of flyover America
The Dinosaurs: Time Passages
★★★☆☆ Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead the ensemble in a new play about a women’s sobriety group