★★★☆☆ Jackie Sibblies Drury unleashes a daring play about race, identity and expectations that gets awkward
All I Want Is One Night: And That’s One Night Too Many
★☆☆☆☆ A British performer digs up Suzy Solidor, a bisexual, cross-dressing French cabaret legend who deserves better
Desperate Measures: A Fiddle-Dee-Dee Wild West Shakespeare Spoof
★★★☆☆ An old-fashioned, cowboy-country musical-comedy farce is neatly cultivated from Measure for Measure‘s plot
Fruit Trilogy: Eve Ensler dishes out a talkative triptych
★★★☆☆ The maker of “The Vagina Monologues” goes experimental with body and soul issues
Dan Cody’s Yacht: A Smart Vessel, Running Short of Its Destination
★★★☆☆ Anthony Giardina’s ambitious new play studies money, privilege, and higher education
The Boys in the Band: 50 Shades of Gay
★★★★★ Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and a charismatic ensemble leap out of a queer time capsule from 1968
Dance Nation: A Seriocomic Fandango Celebrates Girl Power
★★★★☆ Clare Barron’s unusual new play wildly reflects the mindsets of young teen girls
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire: Lessons on How to Lose a Revolution
★★★☆☆ Writer Caryl Churchill and director Rachel Chavkin deliver a time-melding history lesson at New York Theatre Workshop
Summer and Smoke: Sparks Fly High in a Soulful Romance
★★★★☆ Passionate performances by Marin Ireland and Nathan Darrow ignite Tennessee Williams’ rarely-staged romantic drama
The Iceman Cometh: Denzel Washington Swims Above O’Neill’s Lower Depths
★★★☆☆ Living portraits of riffraff gleam amid an arty Broadway revival of a classic